"Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant."

-- Elizabeth Gaskell

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“Never confuse activity with productivity.”
“The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”
“I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government to pull out.”

Source : "Kidnapped reporter begs Italy to withdraw" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2005.
“The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.”
“We must speak more clearly about sexuality, contraception, about abortion, about values that control population, because the ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren't enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.”
“Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.”
“We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.”
“I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.”

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