"Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway."

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Source : Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

Mignon McLaughlin

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“Women must see that there can be no liberation for them and no solution to the ecological crisis within a society whose fundamental model of relationships continues to be one of domination. They must unite the demands of the women's movement with those of the ecological movement to envision a radical reshaping of the basic socioeconomic relations and the underlying values of this [modern industrial] society.”

Source : Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon (2006). “Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America: Women in North American Catholicism”, p.1111, Indiana University Press
“I often cried when I got angry; I hated that. Crying just made you look weak, no matter what triggered it.”
“The United States now sleeps under a Soviet moon”
“You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.”
“There has never been such a silence.”
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
“I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.”

Source : "The Lyric Presents Leo Kottke 1/23". www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2010.
“Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.”

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