"For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?"

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Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

Maria Mitchell

#Women Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Path Quotes

“But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.”

Source : 'So sweet love seemed' (1894)
“It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.”
“History has a way of coming back to you. In the case of Janis Joplin appearing at the festival in 1968, her performance affected the life of a Bostonian who is now a member of the Newport Festivals Foundation Board of Directors. Â Ward Mooney was so affected and emotionally involved in Janisâ€™ performance at Newport, that when he heard the festival was going nonprofit, he knew wanted to become a part.Â Janis was beautiful, gracious and respectful, and the power of her Newport performance continues to live on.”
“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Jan 23, 2013
“Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.”
“It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh... Even the streams were now lifeless... No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves...”
“The thing that I am most passionate about would be acting.”

Source : Source: sea.askmen.com
“Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.”

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