It was always from the love of strong women that he had found whatever joy had been granted him in his life. - Orson Scott Card

Even the most "Rational" people — the ones who claimed not to have a religion — were just as chauvinistic about their irreligion, sneering at and ostracizing the believers just the way the believers treated nonmembers of their own groups. It's a human universal.

Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

How short life is for fools.