“What hurts my fellow humans hurts me, and I can in conscience no more lend my implicit support to an anti-feminist backlash than I can lend my silence to a racist or homophobic campaign.” Charles Stross

“Želim slobodu, pravo na samoizražavanje, svačije pravo na divne, radosne stvari.”

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

“Now fantasy — that’s the horse turd in the bucket of wine! If you have one bucket of horse turds and one bucket of wine, put one horse turd in the bucket of wine and now you have two buckets of horse turds. But if you pour some of the wine into the bucket of horse turds, it’s still a bucket of horse turds. Any recognizable fantasy element introduced into an otherwise innocent novel turns that novel into a fantasy. Isn’t it interesting, how it’s so one-way?”

“Old age is not for sissies.”

“I’m a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending—if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism.” (Charles Stross)

“If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.”

“The truth, as always, will be far stranger.” Arthur C. Clarke

I have been a child, a girl, a party doll, a mistress, a wife, a mother, a professional woman, a virgin and a grandmother. I have been a woman for more than fifty years and yet I have never been able to discover precisely what it is I am, how real I am.

…all that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.