"All my forebears worked for a living. My grandfather painted portraits. My mother too. My aunt painted seascapes."

-- Erica Jong

#Mother Quotes #Aunt Quotes #Grandfather Quotes

“There were so many people who wanted me for their films.”
“You can learn to focus on love in your heart rather than the symptoms of your physical condition.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.”

Source : RFC 791, "Internet Protocol", www.ietf.org. September 1981.
“Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.”
“It's an image that the media has given me as a bad girl, and the only reason they gave me that image is just because of the few things that have gone wrong in my life, and also because I grew up living in a trailer.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The poor Constitution itself is hardly paid any attention to. It's necessary to ignore it because most of what government does these days is clearly unconstitutional. The original idea, as expressed by James Madison, was that states would do 95 percent of the governing. Today, they are little more than administrative subdivisions of the central empire.”
“Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike sensible people as ridiculous or offensive. But in my view, his own theory provides us with the resources (the best resources available, I believe) to correct his own personal errors or cultural prejudices.”
“If editors truly want to improve their byline ratio, they need to stop lamenting the fact that few women journalists send them cold pitches and start taking a hard look at their stable of regular contributors. How many women are on the masthead? How many women columnists or bloggers are on the payroll? This is how real change is going to happen.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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