“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”

“See… I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi need to teach her to belch fire, then introduce her to the real heifer-Goddess herself(Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.”

Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist

“If someone humiliates and hurts us, it is difficult to give them a second chance and turn the other cheek. They might just take another swing at us, we are not ready for that kind of abuse. Who needs it?”

Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“…I'm not able to fear death… We will all turn skeletons and everything shall end. The skeleton becomes, therefore, the most radical form of nudity.”

José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

“If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach
them how to use television.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

“When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.”

M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist

“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people.”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

“We teach people how to treat us.”

Phil McGraw (1950) American television host, psychologist, actor and film producer