"It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others."

-- Paula Giddings

#Mother Quotes #Fall Quotes #Voice Quotes

“The idea of school choice is spreading like wildfire around the country, because it's the one education reform that puts real choices and real opportunities in the hands of families who desperately need them.”
“Here's an example of how it wastes some time. To be judged on or to be talked about on appearanceâ€”say chest sizeâ€”it makes me wear layers, it makes me have to waste time figuring out what am I going to wear so that nobody will look in an area that I don't need them to look at.”
“If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.”
“Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.”
“Only the patients have to take off their clothes. I think I'm pretty safe.”
“Hell is other people at breakfast.”
“Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.”
“How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.”

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