"There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

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“The world cannot bury Christ. The earth is not deep enough for His tomb, the clouds are not wide enough for His winding-sheet; He ascends into the heavens, but the heavens cannot contain Him. He still lives--in the church which burns unconsumed with His love; in the truth that reflects His image; in the hearts which burn as He talks with them by the way.”
“While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten”

Source : L.J. Smith (2010). “The Forbidden Game: The Hunter; The Chase; The Kill”, p.534, Simon and Schuster
“I donâ€™t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbiansâ€¦ itâ€™s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, itâ€™s not who you loveâ€¦ a man, a woman, what have youâ€¦ itâ€™s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.”
“Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.”
“Washington and New York, two primary targets for Al Qaeda.”
“I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.”

Source : "1999: ABC's Walters Pressed Lewinsky on Affairs with Married Men". www.newsbusters.org. May 9, 2008.
“Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.”

Source : Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.31, Moody Publishers

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