"There was other stuff, too, like how something can be so much more than the parts it took to make it, and why people need things around them that lift them above their lives and make them feel the miracle of living."

-- Wendelin Van Draanen

#People Quotes #Miracle Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”

Source : "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.
“I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.”
“The great comfort of turning forty-nine is the realization that you are now too old to die young.”
“When a woman dresses modestly, I can take her seriously as a woman because she doesnâ€™t look like sheâ€™s begging for attention. She knows that sheâ€™s worth discovering. Such humility is radiant. Unfortunately, many women are so preoccupied with turning menâ€™s heads that they overlook their power to turn our hearts.”
“If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like this!' The writer who doesn't understand that this is beside the point is not a writer at all.”
“In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.”
“You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.”
“I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.”

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