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Margaret Haddix

"He reaches over a goat that's come between us and grabs my hand. "Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while mine is sweaty with fear. We've never held hands before. I think about what it means in the village when boys and girls only a few years older then Harper and me wander around with their hands clasped together. They're always peering dreamily into each other's eyes, sneaking sky kisses...and soon after, there's a wedding."

Source : "Palace of Mirrors".

Margaret Haddix

#Girl Quotes #Letting Go Quotes #Mean Quotes

“One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.”

Source : "No-man’s-land". www.believermag.com. February, 2008.
“FeministsÂ believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. Thatâ€™s not a concept you can really shoot down.”
“When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.”
“Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming planet. There, contained in the thin, moving, incredibly fragile shell of the biosphere is everything that is dear to you, all the human drama and comedy. That's where life is; that's were all the good stuff is.”
“I adore Life. What do all the fools matter and all the stupidity. They do matter but somehow for me they cannot touch the body of Life. Life is marvellous. I want to be deeply rooted in it - to live - to expand - to breathe in it - to rejoice - to share it. To give and to be asked for Love.”

Source : Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (1984). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1919-1920”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.”

Source : Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. November 29, 2012.
“Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.”
“Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.”

Source : Song: Heaven Knows

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