"To understand a cat, you must realize that he has has own gifts, his own viewpoint, even his own morality"

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Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (2006). “Two Cats, Three Tales”, p.68, Penguin

Lilian Jackson Braun

#Cat Quotes #Viewpoints Quotes #Morality Quotes

“I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that Iâ€™m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.”
“I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.”
“On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I believe in what I'm singing, but they shouldn't be fooled because we all have fake selves and it's in there somewhere. It's not pretending to hurt somebody; it's just something that comes out of me, from my experience.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.”

Source : "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.
“Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.”
“David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.”
“When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.”
“The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.”

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