"I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain."

-- Mary Church Terrell

#Country Quotes #Race Quotes #Done Quotes

“Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.”
“Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of each nation ought to be only the particular cases in which human reason is applied.”
“Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.”
“'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.”
“I will not steep my speech in lies; the test of any person lies in action.”
“I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it.”
“We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Meredith Grey". TV Series "Grey's Anatomy" ("Here's to Future Days", 2009), (2005 - ).
“A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.”

Source : Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.397

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