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  • April 26th, 2013 1:48pm

    Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, “equality” is a disaster.

    — Robert A. Heinlein

  • August 23rd, 2012 5:54pm

    The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race’s most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must—never for sport.

    — Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough For Love – 1973 (via trevoredwards)

  • August 20th, 2012 12:50pm

    A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

    — Robert A. Heinlein (via trevoredwards)

  • November 23rd, 2011 11:48pm

    Time Enough For Love was awesome. To Sail Beyond The Sunset was really, reeeeally weird, but I liked it. Heinlein is one of the few authors that can weave an obscene amount of sex into a good story. And the only author I’ve ever read that does it as often, as he does it well.