"This is what makes me happy: Remembering where I put my house keys..."

“Only at the end of the last stroke of paint, you can begin to wonder what needs to be done next.”

“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. it is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely toleration, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic. Only then does the necessity for interdependency become unthreatening. Only within the interdependency of different strengths, acknowledged and equal, can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters”

“I began by tinkering around with some old tunes I knew. Then, just to try something different, I set to putting some music to the rhythm that I used in jerking ice-cream sodas at the Poodle Dog. I fooled around with the tune more and more until at last, lo and behold, I had completed my first piece of finished music.”

“I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.”

“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”

“A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.”

Source : Jill Briscoe (2012). “Out of the Storm and into God’s Arms: Shelter in Turbulent Times”, p.177, CLC Publications

“I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.”

Source : Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.”