"The challenging of repression by a new generation of activists - from Malala Yousafzai to Pussy Riot - across the globe reminded us how many women are still fighting for basic human rights. Our great-grandmothers' struggle in all its shocking detail seemed so relevant."

-- Sarah Gavron

#Struggle Quotes #Grandmother Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“One year ago, on this occasion, I called your attention to the abuses that had crept into the distribution of our public funds, and I urged you and pleaded with you that, so far as the Church and its membership were concerned, we do not soil our hands with the bounteous outpouring of funds which the government was giving unto us. I renew that plea now. My brethren and sisters, for the sake of the government which we love, for the sake of the government which we believe was divinely inspired, be honest with it. Be honest, just ordinarily gold honest. That is all I ask.”
“I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.”
“Who can worry about a career? Have a life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.”

Source : "Benjamin Stone | Interview by Ocean Pleasant, Youth Editor". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.”
“Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.”
“It is winter time, my friend; buy couple of breads; find a place calm and quiet and feed the birds; and for this action of yours, ask no more reward than their cheerful singings!”
“I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle along the halls with a pad like a flattened rabbit tail wadded between my legs, sopping with liver-colored blood.”

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