"Human race cannot coexist with nuclear weapons"

“Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.”

“My mother would always say that we had to look very presumida, and I took that to heart. Latinas take a lot of pride in looking their best and that might mean putting a little mascara on.”

“The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.”

“"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."”

“Oh, God, why don't I remember that a little chaos is good for the soul?”

Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.227, Hachette UK

“Palming separates the men from the boys!”

“There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.”

Source : "This much I know" by Malcolm Mclaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

“I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.”

Source : Song: Walk By Faith, Album: Stay, 2002