"...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do -- determined to save the only life you could save."

-- Mary Oliver

#Voice Quotes #World Quotes #Determined Quotes

“Over 13 percent of women in college have reported being a victim of stalking during the school year, and one out of every five college women has reported being sexually assaulted. It is simple to talk about statistics. It is more difficult to remember that each number is a victim and represents a daughter, a sister or a friend.”

Source : "The Campus SaVE Act: A Critical Step to Ending Violence Against Women" by Gwen Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.
“This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.”

Source : "Might Is Right, or The Survival of the Fittest". Book by Arthur Desmond (Chapter 4: Man - The Carnivore!, Section 1), 1890.
“A study of interactions between women and obstetricians offers an explanation. It described three levels of increasing power imbalance: In the first, you fight and lose; in the second you don't fight because you know you can't win. However, in the highest level of power differential, your preferences are so manipulated that you act against your own interests, but you are content. Elective [meaning requested for no medical reason, not to be confused with needed surgery planned in advance] repeat cesarean exemplifies that highest level.”

Source : Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin
“You can't have a market without government, because governments create the rules of competition and enforce fairness in the markets, and they build the institutions within which competition takes place.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.”
“We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.”
“Don't negotiate with terrorists; patent trolls have done more damage to the United States economy than any domestic or foreign terrorist organization in history, every year.”
“Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.”

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