"Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions."

-- Christopher Lasch

#Safety Quotes #Rejection Quotes #Retreat Quotes

“For me, policy is best when connected to the roots, and roots are best when connected to policy. So I encourage you all to stay connected...and walk with real people while doing the activism. Lord knows we need folks who are engaged.”
“I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.”
“Oh, do you want protectionism? No, I don't. I just don't want to give my country away to China.”
“It's not how we fall that defines us as Christians. It's how we get up again.”

Source : Karen Kingsbury (2010). “Unlocked”, p.198, Harper Collins
“You always have your complaints about your own music. I never finish a track because I decided to finish. It's like, I just finish a track because I'm tired of it, you know? So you could be finishing songs forever, I think, if you are quite a perfectionist.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.”
“That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I spent many years struggling to get work, and there are a lot of people more talented than myself who got jobs before me. And I finally, after years and years and years, got lucky.”
“Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence mechanism down and am open to receiving that energy, that gives me clarity as at that time, you are listening to your heart. The heart shows you the direction in life. The mind exists only to execute your emotion.”

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