"Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it."

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Harriet Ann Jacobs

#Father Quotes #Men Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“When a guy says, "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," he means "Don't make a fuss over my birthday". When we say "Don't make a fuss over my birthday," we mean "Give me a surprise party. Do something lavish. Just don't tell everyone my age."”
“That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.”
“About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity, may grow into a fault, and do great harm, still, it never can do so much harm as that horrible laxity and profligacy of speech which is a the root of half the quarrels, cruelties, and injustices of the world.”
“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
“I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.”

Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.300, Macmillan
“The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.”

Source : Sholem Asch (1941). “What I Believe”
“I hope people don't think I'm crazy, because I'm not.”
“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”

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