What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

—Timothy Leary

About Timothy Leary

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Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and author known for strongly advocating psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from "bold oracle" to "publicity hound". According to poet Allen Ginsberg, he was "a hero of American consciousness", while writer Tom Robbins...

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Turn on" meant… become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them; drugs were one way to accomplish this end. "Tune in" meant interact harmoniously with the world around you,… express your new internal perspectives. "Drop out" suggested an active, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments.… Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean, "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

—Timothy Leary

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

—Timothy Leary

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Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.

—Susan Sontag

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

—Robin Morgan

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

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