"I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We donâ€™t separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?"

-- Etel Adnan

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“They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer would have been, 'In the new world women will have total equality, so lets spend our energy creating that whole new world.' And to their credit, the women at Oneida probably had far greater practical equality than what any of the women gathered at Seneca Falls experienced in their lifetimes.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.”
“We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.”
“You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.”
“Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.”

Source : "What I see in the mirror" by Alison Jackson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.
“It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.”
“Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.”
“The blurring of the line between policy and strategy] encouraged soldiers to make the preposterous claim that policy should be subservient to their conduct of operations, and (especially in democratic countries) it drew the statesman on to overstep the definite border of his sphere and interfere with his military employees in the actual use of their tools.”

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