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“Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.”
Source : 1886 The Son of a Servant.
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“Nothing stands still. The real question is can you change it?”
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“I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.”
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“Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.”
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“This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.”
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“These days, it's often women in uniform - moms, wives, even grandmothers - who deploy and leave their families behind.”
Source : "House women DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.
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“Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.”
Source : "The LikeMe Lighthouse: A New Beacon of Hope for Kansas City’s LGBT Residents" by Chely Wright, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2012.
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“When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.”