"Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it."

-- Beth Ditto

#Girl Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“I just want to make whatever is exciting.”

Source : "Spike Jonze and Max Records Interview WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. October 4, 2009.
“I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.”

Source : "London 2012 Olympics: Amputee Oscar Pistorius picked for men's 400m" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.
“Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.”
“Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I know." I asked, "How do you know that I love you?" Because! You're my grandfather!”
“Maybe Gary (Neville) deserves to be chased up a tunnel every now and then - there would be a queue for him, probably. But you have to draw a line eventually.”
“Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.”
“The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.”

Source : "Supreme Court Expands Gay Rights In 2 Major Rulings". "Morning Edition" with Nina Totenberg, www.npr.org. June 27, 2013.
“The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.”

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