Quotes from Carrie Snow

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

I'd like to get married because I like the idea of a man being required by law to sleep with me every night.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.

A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?