"Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money."

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Source : Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

Lilly Ledbetter

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“My parents listened to the Outlaws when I was a kid and I just had no interest in it. But my boyfriend at the time listened to Hank Williams III, and I thought that was really cool because he was singing about whatever he wanted to but it was very country.”
“Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.”
“The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.”
“I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.”
“People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she is. Scully is insanely intelligent.”
“War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.”

Source : Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics
“I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But it's still worth swinging.”
“The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough.”

Source : "1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion". Book by Caroline Coon, 1977.

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