"It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?"

-- Phyllis Bottome

#Pain Quotes #Children Quotes #War Quotes

“Let's make hay while it lasts.”
“I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.”
“Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.”
“Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.”
“Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.136, Knopf
“He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.”
“I believe in labeling things.”
“When youre sharing a foxhole with another man, you don't worry about what color he is, just whether or not he will protect your back”

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