"One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics."

--

Source : "Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death". www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2007.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#Mother Quotes #Baby Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.”

Source : Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”
“The way to be nothing is to do nothing.”
“Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.”
“Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.”
“The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.”

Source : Doug Peacock (2011). “Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness”, p.185, Macmillan
“If you trace the history of Islamist terrorism, you see that its founders were great admirers of European fascism. They read the texts of European fascism, they quoted them in speeches and letters. This is not from the Koran - the Koran doesn't teach you how to repress people; there's nothing in there about women having to cover their faces, there's certainly nothing about suicide bombing.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially when the waves were high and the ship rose and fell, or when it was snowing and the flakes stung her face.”
“I used to think that a guy telling me I'm "not like other girls" was a compliment and I've now flipped to seeing that for the back-handed compliment that it is.”

You may also like:

Alice Paul
Activist
Christabel Pankhurst
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Activist
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Baroness Pethick-Lawrence
Activist
Mary Wollstonecraft
Writer
Millicent Fawcett
Writer
Sylvia Pankhurst
Sarah Gavron
Film director
Susan B. Anthony
Women's rights activist