"I don't believe that life can be counted by years or days, but by experience and how you leave the world by the way you live."

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Source : Jerri Nielsen, Maryanne Vollers (2002). “Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole”, Miramax Books

Jerri Nielsen

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“My father can not finish a sentence. When we were kids he would go, 'Girls the most important thing in life to remember is...' 'Daddy, what is it?' 'What's what, honey?' 'The most important thing in life to remember.' 'Oh, what's that?'”
“Luxury, like a minimum wage, is a relationship; it changes as we change.”

Source : Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”
“In women everything is heart, even the head.”
“If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.”
“The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.”
“As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.”

Source : Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.157, Penguin
“Letters are things, not pictures of things.”
“Five years from now, youâ€™re the same person except for the people youâ€™ve met and the books youâ€™ve read.”

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