"Women who love women, who choose women to nurture and support and to create a living environment in which to work creatively and independently, are lesbians."

-- Blanche Wiesen Cook

#Support Quotes #Environment Quotes #Sexuality Quotes

“Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.”
“I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.”
“Let us have a fair field! This is all we ask, and we will be content with nothing less. The finger of evolution, which touches everything, is laid tenderly upon women. They have on their side all the elements of progress, and its spirit stirs within them. They are fighting, not for themselves alone, but for the future of humanity. Let them have a fair field!”
“And pray, who are you?" Said the Violet blue To the Bee, with surprise, At his wonderful size, In her eyeglass of dew. "I, madam," quoth he, "Am a publican Bee, Collecting the tax Of honey and wax. Have you nothing for me?”
“Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.”
“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
“Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.”
“Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!”

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