"for centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ..."

-- Dale Spender

#Today Quotes #Century Quotes

“I was so honored when Diane Sawyer named me 'Person of the Week,' and like I told her, 'Diane, I love my daughter.' I cried when I found out when she told me she was gay when she was 17 because of the judgment.”

Source : "Marie Osmond will never get over son's suicide, cried when daughter said she was gay". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. April 4, 2013.
“Who put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp-bomp, who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?”
“Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.”

Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
“I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.”
“In the course of that night I suddenly realized that there are many tiny windows between the body and the spirit. If they're open, emotions flow freely back and forth, but if they're partially closed, not much can filter through. Only love can fling them open all together, all at once, like a gust of wind.”
“Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.”
“If the Resurrection had not occurred, why would the apostle Paul give such a list of supposed eyewitnesses? He would immediately lose all credibility with his Corinthian readers by lying so blatantly.”
“When we move apart, she looks at me again, till a small tear lifts itself up in her eye. It trips out to find a wrinkle and follows it down.”

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