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Quotes

This used to be “Some of my favorite quotes”. But the list is becoming longer and longer, and “some” is no longer the right word for it. Hence: a collection of my favorite quotes, in no particular order.
(Several quotes about religion and atheism were taken from the Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations.)

Category
People

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

Oscar Wilde

War is not about who's right, but who's left.

Bertrand Russell

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

Matthew Dicks

Social awkwardness is not a crime.

Idir Aitsahalia

My room is the safest place my body has. My mind doesn’t really have a safe place.

Anna Whateley

Autists are the ultimate square pegs, and the problem with pounding a square peg into a round hole is not that the hammering is hard work. It's that you're destroying the peg.

Paul Collins

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Dr. Seuss

Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.

Alan Turing

There is no cure for being human.

Cheri Rauser

I know of nobody who is purely autistic or purely neurotypical. Even God had some autistic moments, which is why the planets all spin.

Jerry Newport

Even for parents of children who are not on the spectrum, there is no such thing as a normal child.

Violet Stevens

[So-called] mild autism doesn't mean one experiences autism mildly ... It means YOU experience their autism mildy. You may not know how hard they’ve had to work to get to the level they are.

Adam Walton