The Women

Dale Spender

1943 - 2023

Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets, for child care, for social welfare, for rape crisis centres, women's refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says, "Oh, I'm not a feminist", I ask, "Why? What's your problem?"

A Quote

“They got money for war but can’t feed the poor” 

--Tupac Shakur

A Quote

Why do we need to look beyond our borders, and help with what we can?

The world’s troubles do not stay overseas.

                             --Gen George C Marshall

A Quote

If you look at nature carefully,

and really pay attention,

if you're lucky,

you can catch a glimpse

of something deeply hidden.

Mark Speaks

Mark Cuban is a billionaire, and as such, I'm sworn to shit on him.

That said, at least he makes an effort not to be the kind of parasitic power freak that way too many billionaires seem to excel at.

And he knows Trump for the worthless slug that he is:

"As bad as the lack of ethics, lack of character, and lack of honesty, is the fact that he makes no effort to learn anything. He's one of the few human beings on the planet who gets dumber right in front of our faces every day."

From John Fugelsang

(with a tiny bit of editing because I'm egotistical, and I need to "make things a little better")

Here’s the dirty little secret we came to understand in 2025, and it’s not as depressing as it seems:

Losing faith in institutions isn’t nihilism.

It's discernment. It's an informed response by an adult with a living thinking brain to watching dudebro arsonists assume control of the fire department.

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If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

                                                            --Carl Jung

Paraphrasing A Quote

The world is my country,

every human is my kin,

and doing good is my religion.

--Thomas Paine

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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means, "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge".

--Isaac Asimov

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A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

--R Scott Bakker, from The Judging Eye

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(paraphrasing)

"You seem not to understand -

if I'm starving, you're in danger."

--James Baldwin

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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

--GK Chesterton

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Truth can walk naked.

But a lie needs to be dressed.

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I am far less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than I am in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

--Stephen Jay Gould

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Don't Let them fuckers get ya down.

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American fascists claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

                                            --VP Henry Wallace, 1944

A Quote

Cesar Chavez

It was never about grapes or lettuce.

It was always about people.

--Cesar Chavez

Today's Quote

I still love America. I just don't know

how to get there anymore.

--John Prine

A Quote

"If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cuz he feels awful poor inside hisself. And if he's poor inside hisself, ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich."

Casy in The Grapes Of Wrath

--John Steinbeck

A Parable

St Thomas of Waits

My kids noticed I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. 

I told them this story:

In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me ... I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you ... you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest."

So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.

--Tom Waits