"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'."

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Harper Lee

#Father Quotes #Missing Quotes

“I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunity for a lot more. I joined a band and so on. We would do concerts at school, and I would play cover tunes and thought, 'This is really great.'”
“Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.”
“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

Source : "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.
“I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.”
“The challenge is not finding the attitude, but it's really just being open and willing to go for it and try different things, and having a director that you can trust. The attitude is not something that I intended or created.”
“Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.”
“In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.”
“We have a stewardship responsibility to keep ourselves healthy physically and emotionally. If we don't, we cannot carry out our obligations to God, to family, to our employer, or to others. With this in mind, we put limits on the extent to which we allow others to abuse us. Doing right will mean abuse part of the time; that goes with the turf. But inviting abuse or failing to deal with it is wrong.”

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