"The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same."

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Robin Morgan

#Women Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Slave Quotes

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 07, 2013
“New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.”
“I think that the important thing to know is, which is great about this country [the USA], when it comes to domestic issues, we all battle it out and fight it between the parties and all those kind of things to get things done, but when it comes to foreign issues, overseas kind of things, then we all speak with one voice.”
“About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.”
“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”
“It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.”
“Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.”

Source : Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.126

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