“No matter how successful, beloved, influential her work was, when a woman author dies, nine times out of ten, she gets dropped from the lists, the courses, the anthologies, while the men get kept. ... If she had the nerve to have children, her chances of getting dropped are higher still. ... So if you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.” IfsMenWantWritingChildrenStillsMatterKidsDiesCoursesChanceSuccessfulTakenHe ManHigherTenSuicideListsNineCommitBelovedNervesInfluentialAnthology Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.” IfsWantWritingKidsDiesTakenAppreciateSuicideCommit Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.” PersonsLongSelfFeelingsBodyEarthLostStruggleTakenSceneDespairLong TimeConsciousMurderSuicideFinalsPersistenceRealmsRepeatsPhysical BodyGhastlyEarth Life Author:Annie Besant
“Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists, the ones you see in the news killing women and children for the glory of the god of the Qur'an. Moderates are somewhere in between. A moderate Muslim is actually more dangerous than a fundamentalist, however, because he appears to be harmless, and you can never tell when he has taken that next step toward the top. Most suicide bombers began as moderates.” ChildrenNextStepsTakenFeetDangerousNewsGlorySuicideGuiltIslamKillingTraditionalLaddersModeratesFundamentalistNext StepsBombersSuicide Bombers Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef