"Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws."

“we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.330, Broadview Press

“Look, when I got in trouble in school I got in trouble at home. Now when kids get in trouble at school, the teacher gets in trouble. So the families are important.”

Source : "Actor Tony Danza". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 19, 2012.

“I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.”

“Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.”

Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

“Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow.”

“What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument.”

Source : "Sen. Susan Collins: Tax The Rich To Fund Payroll Tax Cut For Workers" By Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

“I would rather have the whole world against me but know that the Almighty God is with me, be called an apostate but know that I have the approval of the God of glory”