"Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as certainly wrong, but so venial as scarcely to deserve censure."

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Source : William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1869). “History of European morals: from Augustus to Charlemagne. II”, p.23

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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“Every beginning is difficult, but it gets easier from there on”
“I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.”
“Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.”
“I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!”
“The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.”

Source : "'I try to create a place of disorientation' - interview with Kehinde Wiley". Interview With Anna Savitskaya, artdependence.com. February 16, 2015.
“We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us”
“The Goddess doesn't enter us from outside; she emerges from deep within. She is not held back by what happened in the past. She is conceived in consciousness, born in love, and nurtured by higher thinking. She is integrity and value, created and sustained by the hard work of personal growth and the discipline of a life lived actively in hope.”
“I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.”

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