"we all grow up thinking our parents found us under cabbage leaves and that sex didn't exist before our personal coming-of-age."

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Source : Mary Jo Putney (2000). “The Burning Point”, Berkley Publishing Group

Mary Jo Putney

#Sex Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.”
“One of the issues I think is very important, in many communities of color, there's a stigma about mental health. We find that the shaming that comes from acknowledging that one may have some issues that may relate to mental health, often people are not willing to go and seek additional help because of that shaming or that cultural stigma that's associated with it. And I think that we need to make this change in how people approach mental health.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“For every dream that you have, your week needs to match that dream.”
“I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest passion is for some form of applied ethics, that leaves me with oodles of possibilities, many of which I have never had the time or opportunity to explore in great depth.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.154, Courier Corporation
“When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.”
“Are we to say that any individual who's on ***** that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?”
“I train for one-and-a-half hours every day in order to keep my energy level high.”

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