Comments on: kalos kai agathos

By: tessa

tessa — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 06:33:01 +0000

Hello, great article/blog & I absolutely loved this book also and roll the words over and over in my mind. I also want this kalos kai agathos, who doesn’t? I love what you wrote about loosening the trick locket..that is a beautiful sentence and metaphor!

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:41:18 +0000

celina, i’ve been putting a tab on each page that amazes me… and now there are about fifteen yellow tabs sticking out of my book (and i’m only halfway done). so glad you loved it, too!

i want to cover my cubicle in quotes from this book.

By: Celina

Celina — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:32:16 +0000

OMG! I am reading this book right now cause I had 3 friends tell me it was a must for me. They all said they thought of me when they were reading it and knew I would love it. They were right. I love it! I have about 20 more pages to go and let me say it just gets better and better. I have contemplated downloading the audiobook to my ipod so can listen to it anytime, anywhere. There are so many wonderful passages that I read and re-read like 12 times. I know I’m slow with this comment since you wrote this 4 days ago but I’ve been sick so I’m just now rejoining the world. Oh well, it gave me time to read more of this fabulous book.

By: jessica

jessica — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:13:18 +0000

hmm, abduction… i hadn’t considered that angle before.

i love that ducky picture, i saw it on cuteoverload. and what an overload that photo is!!!

By: Meredith

Meredith — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:57:22 +0000

I thought that article was great. “I hadn’t really thought about it before.” “Just pray for them.” GAH! I really want to see that documentary.

By: talena

talena — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:28:44 +0000

“Even with “no reliable data,” he went on to conclude that “severe depression and loss of esteem can follow.” (Apparently, no one has told Justice Kennedy about the severe depression and loss of esteem that can follow bearing and raising a baby you can’t afford and didn’t want.)”

No shit. I’m sick of men, especially men with too much freaking power telling me how I feel, much less what I should do. I really appreciated this article. Especially putting the protesting pro-lifers on the spot. If it’s a crime, what’s the penalty- because to some women, jail time would be shorter and worth the price. Just because we can have children doesn’t mean we have to bear children.

That being said, when the time is right, I can’t wait to have kids. In the meantime, I’ll take the pill.

“But there are only two logical choices: hold women accountable for a criminal act by sending them to prison, or refuse to criminalize the act in the first place. If you can’t countenance the first, you have to accept the second. You can’t have it both ways.”