"No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness"

-- Elyn Saks

#People Quotes #Broken Quotes #Legs Quotes

“History is the great propagator of doubt.”
“For all the advances in technology, science and communications, there are signs that we are failing in areas where it matters most: our personal relationships and society in general. The atomisation of society evidenced by the startling increase in recent decades of single person households and the identification of loneliness and isolation as one of our most pressing new social problems, should give us cause for concern.”
“Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.94, Open Road Media
“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”
“I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.”
“[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.”
“Iâ€™ve never had anyoneâ€™s approval, so Iâ€™ve learned to live without it.”
“I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.”

Source : "Romance Unlaced: Interview with Elizabeth Hoyt". Interview With Madeline Hunter, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. September 10, 2014.

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