"[On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused by their unhygienic manner of dressing! The want of the ballot is but a toy by comparison."

-- Mary Edwards Walker

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“My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.”

Source : "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.
“Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.”
“What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.”

Source : "An everyday tale of country folk". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2001.
“You wouldn't be a complete band without a slightly cocky frontman, would you?”
“But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.”

Source : Richard Peck (2006). “Here lies the librarian”
“My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.”
“Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can get. But, the fact that the government facilitated the invention of evidence in order to convict someone of a capital crime, that is something that should concern everybody.”
“If you run your business fairly; if you treat people well; if you try to move your business into areas that are making a real positive difference to other peoples lives; I think you'll A. have much pleasant life, but B. I think you'll have a much more successful business.”

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