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Posted on February 17, 2022

“Fat is a feminist issue.”—Susie Orbach, British psychotherapist, 1946-

Posted on February 2, 2022February 2, 2022

“One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.”—J.B. Priestley, English novelist, 1894-1984

Posted on January 5, 2022

“I may be sick and I may seem dumb. That don’t mean you know where I’m coming from.”—Lyric from “Qualified”, by Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr.), American songwriter, 1941-2019

Posted on December 15, 2021

“To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”—Walter Pater, English essayist, 1839-1894

Posted on December 2, 2021December 2, 2021

“When the fight begins within himself, a man is worth something.”—Robert Browning, English poet, 1812-1889

Posted on November 21, 2021November 22, 2021

“Life is made up of marble and mud.”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist, 1804-1864

Posted on November 20, 2021November 20, 2021

“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”—Søren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855

Posted on November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”—Mae West, American actress, 1893-1980

Posted on October 28, 2021October 27, 2021

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”—Albert Einstein, German-born American theoretical physicist, 1879-1955

Posted on October 21, 2021

“O mortal man, think mortal thoughts!”—Euripides, Greek dramatist, 481-407 BC

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