"The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men."

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Nellie L. McClung

#Marriage Quotes #Brother Quotes #Father Quotes

“That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.”
“We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.”
“Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.”

Source : George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”
“Economics is on the side of humanity now.”
“Absent the edge, we drown in numbness.”
“The greatest ability is dependability.”
“In reading we must become creators.”
“Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.”

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