The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily TomlinRead
To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.
Interpretation
Sexual freedom is about having the autonomy to choose not to engage in sexual activities.
Lily Tomlin's quote highlights that sexual freedom should not be narrowly defined as the ability to have sex, but rather the liberation to make personal choices about one's sexual experiences, including the choice to abstain. This perspective emphasizes the importance of consent and personal agency in sexual relationships.
In practice
In a discussion about sexual rights at a conference or seminar.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
The road to success is always under construction.
Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Home is where the people who live there need me to come home to them, and worry about me when I'm gone. There's no such place on this earth, no matter how far I drive.
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each otherβs angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.
America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.
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