"In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life."

-- C. Everett Koop

#Christian Quotes #Mother Quotes #Years Quotes

“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.”

Source : Gaius Petronius Arbiter (1962). “The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter”
“When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return ...”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (1985). “With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson”, Pocket Books
“America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”
“I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.”
“The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.”

Source : Peter Matthiessen (2010). “The Tree Where Man Was Born”, p.201, Penguin
“Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.”
“Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.”

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