“Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.”
“We all matter - maybe less then a lot but always more than none.”
“And so we all matter - maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
“I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
“If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?”
“No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.”