"If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be."

-- William Penn

#Family Quotes #Children Quotes #World Quotes

“Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning”

Source : Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.181, University of Michigan Press
“A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.”
“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”
“Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.”
“Remarks are not literature.”
“Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 23, 2016
“The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.”
“Generation after generation of women have pledged to raise their daughters differently, only to find that their daughters grow up and fervently pledge the same thing.”

Source : Elizabeth Debold, Marie C. Wilson, Idelisse Malavé (1993). “Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power”, Da Capo Press

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