"The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan."

-- Garrison Keillor

#Daughter Quotes #Fathers Day Quotes #Running Quotes

“I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.”
“Peace in patriarchy is war against women.”

Source : Maria Mies (1998). “Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour”, p.26, Palgrave Macmillan
“I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.”

Source : "Citizens before corporations". www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.
“I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.”
“If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.”
“A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.”
“For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 19, 2010
“Surrender is not a weakness it is strength.It takes tremendous strength to surrender life to the supreme - to the cosmic unfolding.”

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