Normal Readiness

Famous quotes containing the words normal and/or readiness:

    Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such a thing as deviance exists at all in human relationships if they seem satisfactory to those who share them.
    Elizabeth Janeway (b. 1913)

    Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)