“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephron     “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it’s a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real.” ― Nora Ephron     “What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.” ― Nora Ephron     “I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that…

“We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.” ― Noam Chomsky       “If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” ― Noam Chomsky       “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on — because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.” ― Noam Chomsky     “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable…

“Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.” ― Richard Nixon   “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.” ― Richard Nixon   “The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.” ― Richard Nixon     “The man of…