"I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events."

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Helen Gahagan Douglas

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“Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.”
“Jazz stands for freedom.”
“It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do-write songs and sing them to people. ... Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was. ... For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.”
“I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.”

Source : "Maggie's Centres: can architecture cure cancer?" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.
“Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.”
“We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.”
“If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.”

Source : "Heavy Petting". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, July 4, 2015.
“You've got this amazing creature- yourself- that can breathe, dance, and cry. And you have a certain amount of moments (maybe a few million moments-but moments they are) and you have this chance to do absolutely anything- to reach out to another vulnerable & true. To dance on the roof of euphoria and pray beside the ocean to let go. We have the chance every moment to Be Alive and give to this world who needs each one of us so badly.”

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