"It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations."

-- Winona LaDuke

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Women Quotes

“Be sceptical, ask questions, demand proof. Demand evidence. Don't take anything for granted. But here's the thing: When you get proof, you need to accept the proof. And we're not that good at doing that.”

Source : "The danger of science denial" by Michael Specter, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2011.
“Do you think I'm going to be one of those flash-in-the-pan actresses?”
“I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.”

Source : Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan
“It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.222, Penguin
“I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will push back, resistance, and misunderstanding.”
“I'm being probably naÃ¯ve, but I would like to think that once something moves you and you have an emotional involvement with it, and you see some relevance in it to your own life, then it's a little bit harder, maybe, to look at the people that produced it as being just exotic others that don't have any connection to you or relevance to you.”
“I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.”
“I'm a T-shirt-and-Levi's type of a guy.”

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