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“People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.”
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“The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.”
Source : Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.193, Haymarket Books
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“The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.”
Source : "Ken Venturi, Famed CBS Sports Golf Analyst, Dies at 82" by Mike Barnes, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 17, 2013.
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“Where there is hope...there is life”
Source : Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.163, Hamilton Books
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“Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, and not upon the deepest appearances, and not realities.”
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“All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.”
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“I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.”
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“The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.”