"[W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women."

-- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

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“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.”
“claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.”
“So one thing I want to say about life is don't be scared and don't hang back, and most of all, don't waste it.”

Source : Joan W. Blos (2013). “A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”
“What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by so much beauty that you forget how ugly life is for everyone else? Who wouldnâ€™t want that? Who wouldnâ€™t be willing to fight for it? What the alumni did to get there â€“ lie, cheat, steal, kill â€“ Iâ€™m sure theyâ€™d all say it was worth it. And I bet they sleep soundly because they know that their nameless, faceless victims would have done the same thing.”
“I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was.”
“People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.”
“It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.”

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