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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want
to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw
again as long as I live.
Erica Jong
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy
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Associated Press:
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Berkeley, CA: A University of California student who regularly comes to
school naked will have to dress for class under a new campus rule.
Andrew Martinez has been arrested for nudity three times, but courts
dismissed the charges because his behavior did not qualify as "lewd and
lascivious" under California law.
Martinez says he bares all to protest society's insistence that people wear
clothes.
Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien issued an edict on Wednesday banning public
nudity, sexually offensive conduct and indecent exposure at the university.
The new rule does not cary the force of law, but it will allow police to ask
people caught naked to leave campus, said Lt. Bill Foley of the campus
police. If they refuse to leave, they can be arrested for trespassing.
"The mission of the university is to teach," said spokesman Bob Sanders.
"Anything that is disruptive to that can't be tolerated."
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The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two
sexes--the legal subordination of one sex to the other--is wrong in itself, and
now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and it ought to be
replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on
the one side, nor disability on the other.
John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women (1869)
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Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Dorothy Parker
Not So Deep as a Well (1937)
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Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for
women demands a change in the human psyche more profound then anything Marx
dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
Polly Toynbee
Guardian 19 Jan. 1987
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to
join in checking this mad, wicked folly of "Woman's Rights", with all its
attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every
sense of womanly feeling and propriety. Lady-- ought to get a good
whipping. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot
contain herself. God created men and women different--then let them remain
each in their own position.
Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870
From Queen Victoria
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Kids Talk About LOVE
by David Heller
(Reprinted without permission from "Cosmopolitan")
What Exactly Is Marriage??
"When somebody's been dating for a while, the boy might
propose to the girl. He says to her, 'I'll take you for
a whole life, or at least until we have kids and get
divorced, but you got to do one particular thing for me.'
Then she says yes, but she's wondering what the thing is
and whether it's naughty or not. She can't wait to find
out."
-Anita, 9
Concerning the Proper Age to Get Married.
"Eighty-four! Because at that age, you don't have to
work anymore, and you can spend all your time loving
each other in your bedroom."
-Carolyn, 8
"Once I'm done with kindergarten, I'm going to find
me a wife!"
-Bert, 5
What Do Most People Do on a Date??
"On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and
that usually gets them interested enough to go for a
second date."
-Martin, 10
"Many daters just eat pork chops and french fries and
talk about love."
-Craig, 9
When Is It Okay to Kiss Someone??
"You should never kiss a girl unless you have enough
bucks to buy her a big ring and her own VCR, 'cause
she'll want to have videos of the wedding."
-Allan, 10
"Never kiss in front of other people. It's a big
embarrassing thing if anybody sees you....If nobody
sees you, I might be willing to try it with a handsome
boy, but just for a few hours."
-Kally, 9
The Great Debate: Is It Better to Be Single or Married??
"It gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm
just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble."
-Will, 7
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Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think.
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the
foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce
Cynic's Word Book (1906)
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In August in Eugene, Ore., Rick Geoffroy opened Lollipops,
a juice bar for people 18 and older, which will feature
topless female dancers. Geoffroy said Lollipops is aimed for
men 18 to 20, who cannot attend topless bars that serve
liquor. (Nor can under-21 dancers hustle alcoholic drinks
from customers, but they can hustle juice drinks.) Geoffroy
told the Eugene Register-Guard that he believes the
community "needs more activities for young people."
News of the Weird
Chuck Shepard
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Entertainer Tiny Tim, enunciating his educational philosophy to
the Associated Press: "If kids, after eight or nine years old,
aren't doing good in school, put them to work. Repeal all those
child-labor laws... . You can tell at eight or nine if school's
doing any good. If it isn't, don't let them linger there.
The Progressive
September 1992
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"Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant."
Edinburgh, 29 Oct. 1867
"Upon the education of the people of this country
the fate of this country depends."
House of Commons, 15 June 1874
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
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If you rearrange the letters in: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER THIRD
You get: MANY VOTED, BUSH RETIRED
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The slotting of black children into lower tracks, according to the
Public Education Association of New York, is a familiar practice in
the city: "Classes for the emotionally handicapped, neurologically
impaired, learning disabled and educable mentally retarded are
disproportionately black..."
SAVAGE INEQUALITIES
Children In America's Schools
a Must Read by
Jonathan Kozol
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"In the old days," my mother said in a puzzled vioce,
"if you had a date, with a man, he would pick you up
at your door. Everything seemed polite. Then, as soon
as you got into his car, he would drive around the block,
unzip his fly, and put your hand on it. It was unbelievable!"
-- Tama Janowitz
"The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group"
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"Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds."
Johnny Rotten.
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ADVICE GIVEN TO BRIDES IN 1894
INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE
On the Conduct and Procedure of the Intimate and Personal relationships of
the Marriage State for the Greater Spiritual Sanctity of this Blessed Sacrament
and the Glory of God by Ruth Smythers, beloved wife of the Reverend L.D.
Smythers of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional Conference.
Published in the year of our Lord 1894, Spiritual Guidance Press, New York City.
On the...wedding night... the bride must pay the piper, so to speak,
by facing for the first time the terrible experience of sex.
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE,
GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise... a
proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.
Sex is at best revolting and at worst rather painful... Feigned
illness, sleepiness, and headaches are among the wife's best friends in this
matter. Arguments, nagging, scolding, and bickering also prove very
effective... A good wife should expect to have reduced sexual contacts to once
a week by the end of the first year of marriage.
The wise bride will pay equal attention to limiting the kind and
degree of sexual contacts. Most men are by nature rather perverted, and if
given half a chance, would engage in quite a variety of the most revolting
practices. These practices include among others performing the normal act in
abnormal positions: mouthing the female body: and offering their own vile
bodies to be mouthed in turn.
A wise bride will make it her goal never to allow her husband to see
her unclothed body, and never allow him to display his unclothed body to her.
Sex when it cannot be prevented, should be practiced only in total darkness.
Once a bride has donned her gown and turned off all the lights, she
should lie quietly upon the bed and await her groom. When he comes groping
into the room, she should make no sound to guide him in her direction, lest he
take this as a sign of encouragement. She should let him grope in the dark.
There is always the hope that he will stumble and incur some slight injury
which she can use as an excuse to deny him sexual access.
The wise wife relentlessly pursues her goal first to limit, later to
annihilate completely, her husband's desire for sexual expression.
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"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education."
Will Rogers
Autobiography (1949)
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Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party forthrightly staked out their
opposition. The party's 1992 platform declared: "We oppose the Bush
administration's efforts to bankrupt the public school system-the
bedrock of democracy-through private school vouchers." Critics dismiss
the Democrats' position as special-interest politics, since the
teachers' unions are a major constituency. But in fact the Democrats
are defending the long-term interests of most American families.
Despite conservative propaganda to the contrary, 89 percent of the
country's 48 million elementary and secondary students are in
public schools. And the overwhelming majority want to stay there.
William Greider
Rolling Stone Magazine
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When I was traveling in Oregon last week, I saw a wonderful
political button. Oregon Measure 9 (which was defeated) was the
anti-gay measure. The button read:
Nerds against 9
Remember it could have been us.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient
evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz
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Excerpted from Harper's Index:
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* Percentage of Iowans who say they would like having Madonna for a
neighbor "a lot": 8.
* Average annual salary Zabar's delicatessen in New York City pays
lox slicers with at least 10 years' experience: $60,000.
* Breasts bared on a Canadian border bridge last July to celebrate
New York State's legalization of topless sunbathing: 40.
* Ratio of the number of times President Bush has had his hair cut
this year to the number of times Bill Clinton has: 2:1.
* Amount spent to operate the U.S. prison system last year, per
prisoner: $20,296.
* Percentage of Americans in their 20's who say that corruption is
"an important factor in getting ahead": 37.
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"We need a comprehensive effort that places the student at the
center of education reform...What we need now is a coordinated
effort to focus on the following:
----> Respect students
----> Engage students in learning
----> Promote learning for a lifetime
----> Do it right from the start
----> Make parents and community partners
----> Establish new roles for school personnel "
Dorothy Kerzner Lipsky
Social Policy (journal)
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The Princeton Dental Resource Center, publisher of a
newsletter for dentists and financed to the tune of $1
million per year by the M&M/Mars Candy Co., has been
advising dentists to tell their patients it's a good
idea to eat chocolate. "So the next time you snack on
your favorite chocolate bar or bowl of peanuts, remember-
if enjoyed in moderation, they can be good-tasting and
might even inhibit cavities."
The Nose
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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men
to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton
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Real education must ultimately be limited to one who
insists on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound
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"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."
Eric Hoffer
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"Martin Luther King Junior High School," notes the Post-Dispatch in a story
published in the early spring of 1989, "was evacuated Friday afternoon after
sewage flowed into the kitchen...The kitchen was closed and students were
sent home." On Monday, the paper continues, "East St. Louis Senior High
School was awash in sewage for the second time this year." The school had
to be shut because of "fumes and backed-up toilets." Sewage flowed into
the basement, through the floor, then up into the kitchen and the student's
bathrooms. The backup, we read, "occurred in the food preparation areas."
SAVAGE INEQUALITIES
Children In America's Schools
a Must Read by
Jonathan Kozol
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Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.
-Jean-Luc Godard
Unplastic News: truth at 2400 bps.
-B. Hathrume Duk
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Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.The quarrels of popes
and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for
nothing, and hardly any women at all.
JANE AUSTEN
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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs,
why did He give us a brain?
Clare Booth Luce
Life Magazine
Oct 16 1970
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The main difference between men and women is
that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
Gloria Steinem
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The children regale me with a chilling story as we stand
beside the [polluted] marsh. Smokey says his sister was raped and
murdered and then dumped behind the school. Other children add more
details: Smokey's sister was 11 years old. She was beaten with a brick
until she died. The murder was commited by a man who knew her mother.
The narative begins when, without warning, Smokey says, "My sister
has got killed."
"She was my best friend," Serena says.
"They had beat her in the head and raped her," Smokey says.
"She was hollering out loud," says Little Sister.
I ask them when it happened. Smokey says, "Last year." Serena corrects
him and she says, "Last week."
"It scared me because I had to cry," says Little Sister.
"The police arrested one man but they didn't catch the other," Smokey says.
Serena says, "He was some kin to her."
But Smokey objects, "He weren't no kin to me. He was my momma's friend."
"Her face was busted," Little Sister says.
Serena describes the sequence of events: "They told her go behind the school.
They'll give her a quarter if she do. Then they knock her down and told her
not to tell what they had did."
I ask, "Why did they kill her?"
"They was scared that she would tell," Serena says.
"One is in jail," says Smokey. "They can't find the other."
"Instead of raping little bitty children, they should find themselves a wife,"
says Little Sister.
"I hope," Serena says, "her spirit will come back and get that man."
"And KILL that man," says Little Sister.
"Give her another chance to live," Serena says.
"My teacher came to the funeral," says Smokey.
"When a little child dies, my momma say a star go straight to Heaven,"
says Serena.
"My grandma was murdered," Mickey says out of the blue. "Somebody
shot two bullets in her head."
I ask him, "Is she really dead?"
"She dead all right," says Mickey. "She was layin' there, just dead."
"I love my friends," Serena says. "I don't care if they no kin to me. I
care for them. I hope his mother have another baby. Name her for my friend
that's dead."
"I have a cat with three legs," Smokey says.
"Snakes hate rabbits," Mickey says, again for no apparent reason.
"Cats hate fishes," Little Sister says.
"It's a lot of hate," says Smokey.
SAVAGE INEQUALITIES
Children In America's Schools
a Must Read by
Jonathan Kozol
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre,
but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain
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I just ate a whole package of sweet tarts and a can of Coke.
I think I saw god.
B. Hathrume Duk
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How can you have any pudding
if you don't eat your meat.
Pink Floyd
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The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
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Seth Greenspan
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Dazed N. Confused
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