"No influence is so powerful as that of the mother."

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Source : Kathleen Ann Lawrence, Abigail Adams, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Louisa May Alcott, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1989). “The Domestic Idiom: The Rhetorical Appeals of Four Influential Women in Nineteenth-century America”

Sarah Josepha Hale

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“My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup,”

Source : "Kristin Bauer Van Straten, ‘True Blood’ Star, On Not Being As Glamorous As Pam" by Erica Cheung, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.
“When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.”
“If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.”
“Baseball player: "What time is it?" "You mean now?"”
“My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.”
“Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.”
“One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.”
“The average mind requires a change of environment before he can change his thought. He has to go somewhere or bring into his presence something that will suggest a new line of thinking and feeling. The master mind, however, can change his thought whenever he so desires. A change of scene is not necessary, because such a mind is not controlled from without. A change of scene will not produce a change of thought in the master mind unless he so elects.”

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