"Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed."

-- Isabel Allende

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Children Quotes

“She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.”

Source : Nancy Price (1991). “Sleeping with the enemy”, Berkley Pub Group
“Chromophobia is perhaps only chromophilia without the colour.”

Source : David Batchelor (2000). “Chromophobia”, p.71, Reaktion Books
“The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power.”
“The journalist's job is to get the story by breaking into their offices, by bribing, by seducing people, by lying, by anything else to break through the palace guard.”
“Obama's style of argumentation is unlike any president I have ever met, and I've met a lot of them. And the condescension that oozes from him when he's talking about his opponents, it's really striking.”

Source : "Jeb Bush's Iraq Stumble". "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.wsj.com. May 17, 2015.
“I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.”

Source : Song: A Countryboy Can Survive
“Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.”
“Happiness--a small-scale, endearing, harmonious happiness--surely dwelt here beneath the low-powered lamps in the tiny rooms of these houses. A small-scale happiness and a modest harmony: let a man cry out, let him rage, let him howl with grief with all the power of which he was capable, what more than these could he ever hope to gain in this life?”

Source : Fumiko Enchi (1971). “The waiting years”

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