Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

The belief that a person can and should only feel grief over one sad event at a time is a truly disturbing estimate of our emotional capacity.

As white authors, bloggers, and readers, we must stop promoting diversity as a business opportunity or a chance to buy ally points with our disposable income.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

The attitude of, I will never self-publish, coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich at the swinging door as she passed through it.

I'm sorry I'm not more cultured. I'll watch PBS. And cut people open for fun. Will that be better? Will you be less embarrassed to be my fledgling then?

The blood of Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9 NIV).

If you are living an original life, there is absolutely no need to compete with anyone else.

Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be.Not all daughters were like their fathers. A daughter monster chose the monster she would be.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

The greatest revelation is stillness.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.