"The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars."

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Jeffrey Eugenides

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.”
“A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.”
“People don't want to be sold! People want to buy!”
“Bob Dylan is out of the mentorship of Allen Ginsberg.”
“Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.”
“The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.”
“There are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this."”
“We will have taken one giant step forward when we face this reality: Powerful people never teach powerless people how to take their power away from them.”

Source : John Henrik Clarke (1991). “Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution”, Africa World Pr

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