"Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

#Country Quotes #Abortion Quotes #Care Quotes

“Let us candidly confess our indebtedness to the needle. How many hours of sorrow has it softened, how many bitter irritations calmed, how many confused thoughts reduced to order, how many life-plans sketched in purple!”

Source : Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1868). “The College, the Market, and the Court: Or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law”, p.9
“But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.”

Source : Steve Almond (2007). “(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions”, p.33, Random House
“Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.”
“The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.”
“I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.”

Source : FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Mar 31, 2012
“There are no happy endings there are only happy people.”
“Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other.”
“I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.”

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