"If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls."

-- Greg Mortenson

#Girl Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Hygiene Quotes

“It is success that colours all in life, Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest.”
“Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power whirls. Birds make their nest in circles... The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.”
“I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.”

Source : Bill Mauldin, Todd DePastino (2008). “Willie & Joe: The WWII Years”, Fantagraphics Books
“My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.”

Source : Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.26, Vintage
“For us, we just start with the character. We think of Stifler, and that usually just leads to something that's outrageous.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“no such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human interactions and exchanges and it can be found in countless texts throughout recorded history and from around the world--a testimony to its universality.”
“Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially strong period of disillusion with regard to the optimism of the previous age, the pattern has repeated itself in many ways in more recent times, e.g., the loss of faith in politics as a means of advancing human well-being. And perhaps this also has to do with basic elements in growing up.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.”

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