Quotations

"If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man."

— Gail Sheehy, American author, born November 27, 1937

"I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy was in us.
The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called possession of my soul.
There are times since, I've felt like the child born of those two fathers. But, be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life."

— Charlie Sheen, American actor, born 1965

"Activism is what I do to stay alive."

— Martin Sheen, American actor, born August 3, 1940

"Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting."

— Martin Sheen, American actor and producer, born August 3, 1940

"As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations."

— Ed Sheeran, English singer, born February 17, 1991

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."

— Mary Shelley, English author, died February 1, 1851

"I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created."

— Mary Shelley, English author, born August 30, 1797

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."

—Mary Shelley, English author, born August 30, 1797

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."

—Mary Shelley, English author, born August 30, 1797

"The beginning is always today."

—Mary Shelley, English author, born August 30, 1797

"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it."

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, born 1792

"I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight."

— Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, born 1792

"Sometimes your only available mode of transportation is a leap of faith."

— Margaret Shepard, American calligrapher

"In this world, love has no color—yet how deeply my body is stained by yours."

— Izumi Shikibu, Japanese poet, born 976