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Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like adulterers being punished and black slaves breaking loose and giant whales eating people? Why can't literature just be stories about women? Refined, respectable women have just as much to say as ignorant black slaves or bloodthirsty Indians or mad white whaling captains. Why do we have to pretend those people's lives matter more than our own? A. Whitney Brown
So my unsolicited advise to women in the workplace is this: when faced with sexism or agism or lookism or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: "Is this person in between me and what I want to do?" If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Tina Fey
But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral. Anne Rice
Vaclav Havel quote: "The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of..."
The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. Vaclav Havel
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. Franz Kafka
A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am now the site of an unmistakable sag...With fancy holographic belt buckles do I attempt to restrain my stampeding softness. In vain....My only virtues, as a physical specimen, are my sideburns, which are like the pelts of rare woodland animals. My sideburns are not to be ignored. Rick Moody
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls. John Adams
When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government Thomas Paine
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "Oh ignorant youth, the world is not a joyous place."
Oh ignorant youth, the world is not a joyous place. Hunter S. Thompson
Susan Sontag quote: "My ignorance is not charming."
My ignorance is not charming. Susan Sontag
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar Oscar Wilde
Karen Armstrong quote: "The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally..."
The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence. Karen Armstrong
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink... Virginia Woolf
For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance Rene Descartes

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