“at night we glimpsed the flowers blooming between women's legs
but we were vegetarians and misogynists”

“The nature of this flower is to bloom.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

“Misogynist — A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“…shall we say that the difference between a vegetarian and a cannibal is just a matter of taste?”

Leszek Kolakowski (1927–2009) Philosopher, historian of ideas

“Weave no more silks, ye Lyons looms,
To deck our girls for gay delights!
The crimson flower of battle blooms,
And solemn marches fill the nights.”

Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) American abolitionist, social activist, and poet

“In other words…you can't be a misogynist and expect women to appreciate you.”

Brian Keith (1921–1997) actor

“The Nature of This Flower Is to Bloom

Rebellious. Living.
Against the Elemental Crush.
A Song of Color
Blooming
For Deserving Eyes.
Blooming Gloriously
For its Self.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

“Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.”

Henryk Sienkiewicz book In Desert and Wilderness

“Fly not yet; 't is just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night
And maids who love the moon.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter