"My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending."

-- Hilda Solis

#Niece Quotes #Animal Quotes #Domestic Violence Quotes

“Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.”
“There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.”
“I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!”
“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
“Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired”
“Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.Because your father tumbled in the yellow trenches,Raged at his breast, gulped and died,Do not weep.War is kind.”
“I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.”

Source : Yves Tanguy (1974). “Yves Tanguy: Catalog of an Exhibition November 7-December 7, 1974”
“I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...”

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