"I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty.
Where's my parade?" -Margaret Cho

I made a personal decision to paint my neighbors house black.
I wish my neighbor would stop complaining about it.
It was a quick & easy job & I dont regret it. Its a personal choice, & he needs to respect it.-Yoshua, MDC

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire, Author and Philosopher, born Francois Marie Arouet

CIRCUMCISION:
Doctors  get  the  tips,
Our  sons  get  the  shaft.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Gandhi

We don't receive wisdom; We must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -Marcel Proust

"So circumcision started as a sacrifice- because God wanted the Jews' dickheads. Then it kept going because Christians hated the fun of masturbation. We saw through that; suddenly circumcision prevented disease. Now we find that's bullshit too. So the only excuse we have now is conformity. Not a very compelling argument. What's next? So your cockhead is a little easier to pierce? So you don't whistle in the wind? To stop the terrorists?
Let's end this now. The first rule of medicine is to do no harm. Cutting off the tip of the penis is at very least a harm. Quite possibly, fucking bad- and bad for fucking! So to all you penis butchers out there: put down the knife, step away from the baby, and Do No Harm."
Penn Jillette

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been so credulous.
~ Carl Sagan ~

we don't hurt babies in our house; god gave them to us to protect. -suseyblue, MDC

[Circumcision is:]
2) Medically Unnecessary- it IS necessary... in order to assure avoidance of conditions of the foreskin. You could say that about any part of the body, though. If you poke out one eye, you reduce your chances of eye cancer by 50%. Of course, you won't see as much, but you'll have less trouble focusing and get fewer headaches from reading fine print. Depth perception is a myth anyway, though.. right?
Ask any cyclops. -Josh

The first real choice a human baby must make is whether to trust or mistrust other humans. This basic trust-versus-mistrust stage is the first building block upon which all later love relationships are formed." ~ Dr. Ken Magid

~7 billion gallons of oil each year are required to feed our disposable-diaper habit today, almost 4x as much oil as is estimated to be in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.-Peggy O'Mara

"George's answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chainsaw. Which is why I think he and Cheney and Rumsfeld get along so well. -Laura Bush

"Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past."

"Children who go swimming are 7,193 times more likely to bump up against a fish than non-swimming children." -American Journal of Oceanic Recreation

It takes less effort to condemn than to think. --Emma Goldman

"Scientific medicine has taken credit it does not deserve for some advances in health. Most people believe that victory over the infectious diseases of the last century came with the invention of immunisations. In fact, cholera, typhoid, tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough, etc, were in decline before vaccines for them became available - the result of better methods of sanitation, sewage disposal, and distribution of food and water." from 'Health and Healing' Dr Andrew Weil:

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

The germ is nothing; the terrain is everything. L. Pasteur

It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it. -Upton Sinclair

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
-Gloria Steinem

The person who does not believe it can be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. ~ Rebecca West

"You become responsible forever for what you have tamed." The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Marian Tompson, a founding mother of LLLI:
"I think anyone with half a brain would realize that human milk is species specific. No one ever suggests that I feed my kittens with milk from the cocker spaniel next door."

"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific."
-Lily Tomlin

"Breastfeeding is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form." - Christiane Northrup, MD

Having a baby is a beautiful miracle... Having a homebirth is choosing to treat it that way.
Emilie

"Ironically, guys like Jerry Falwell insist on interpreting the Good Book very literally. But put them in front of Teletubbies, and suddenly they become masters of subtext, cultural analysis, and innuendo. Go figure." Susan Jane Gilman, Kiss My Tiara

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.--Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Emile"

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ~Lucille Ball

"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything” Albert Einstein

If I were an Iraqi, bound to a bed, clothes taken, denied food or water and lied to...the American Media would care. But I'm just a woman giving birth in America-S. Mitchell

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. -Anne Lamott

Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said. - Mark Twain

I believe there is something out there watching over us. Unfortunately, it's the government. Woody Allen

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE

If we've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH 1991

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Treaty of Tripoli 1796

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself, and where they are they should be changed.-Jimmy Carter

* never wrestle with pigs, they like it too much and you get dirty.*

When you throw dirt, you lose a lot of ground.

It's not just the making of babies,
but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
-- Barbara Katz Rothman, Sociologist, Author of The Tentative Pregnancy, Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike

can you recall a time when you panicked and flipped out and it actually helped?
-- H.E. Runkel

"I'm very social indeed. Being with people is nice. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you?" -- Clarisse of Fahrenheit 451 on school "socialization"

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided jails called school, equipped with tortures called education.
--John Updike

"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school." --George Bernard Shaw

If your diapers aren't cloth, they're garbage.

It is easy to wake a sleeping person up, but it's very hard to wake a person up who is pretending to be asleep.

Peace is not something you wish for;
It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.
-Robert Fulghum

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched. ~ (Aldous Huxley, Island)

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.~ Alexandre Dumas

"What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all." --John Holt

It belongs to me/God told me/ If I painted it enough/I could have it- Georgia O'Keeffe.

I decided that the only thing I could do that was nobody else's business was to paint. I could do as I chose because no one would care. -G. O'Keeffe.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-John F. Kennedy

In war you kill the people who are the victims of the tyrant you claim to be fighting against.~Howard Zinn

~What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mahatma Gandhi~

"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify, simplify." Thoreau

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength"  Corrie Ten Boom.

Make yourself so happy that when others look at you they become happy too. - Yogi Tea bag tag

Amateurs built the ark ... Professionals built the Titanic!

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. ~ Bertrand Russell

"When you are in doubt, be still, and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.  So long as mists envelop you, be still.  Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists -- as it surely will.  Then act with courage"  White Eagle

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." Woodrow Wilson

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is. --Mark Twain

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -- Krishnamurti

"Be kind whenever possible...it is always possible."
-Dalai Lama

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that." - Thomas Edison (1847–1931)

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."  - Helen Keller

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. -- MLK, Jr.

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ~Rita Mae Brown, speech, 28 August 1982

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. ~Theodore Roosevelt

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.~ Francis Maude

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man" -- George Bernard Shaw

As Voltaire said, "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

"I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him."— Albert Einstein

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

"May God, if there is one, save my soul, if I have one." - Voltaire