"Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god."

-- Wade Davis

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“I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could do was live by my beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing that anybody can do.”
“I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.”

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“It's time to start living the life you've imagined.”
“The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.”
“The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!”
“I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“The aim of dis-incumbence is a hubristic one, for it requires confidence in the ability of men and women to live in the belief that nothing they do can, in the end, be justified by anything. That's a belief that it is easy to proclaim in seminar rooms or pubs, but not one that people could actually live with.”
“we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.”

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