"My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity."

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Source : "The Prodigal Daughter" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. July 8, 2013.

Jill Lepore

#Loyalty Quotes #Mother Quotes #Determination Quotes

“Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.”
“As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”
“The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.”
“My grandfather was Bob Shad, one of those legendary jazz and blues producers - he worked with Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, and he produced Janis Joplin's album [1967's Big Brother & the Holding Company]. He always owned small labels as well - he had a label called Mainstream Records in the 70s.”
“The mind is the greatest of all human forces. Control the mind and you control the body.”
“Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.”
“I left the Midwest feeling like, "People are small-minded, they don't want to ask questions, they don't want to think out of the box." Some of that was true.”
“The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.”

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