"The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us."

-- Leslie Morgan Steiner

#Falling In Love Quotes #Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes

“As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.”

Source : Iris Chang (1997). “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II”, p.21, Basic Books
“Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.”

Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1974). “Unlearning the lie: sexism in school”, William Morrow & Company
“With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.”
“When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance."- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death”
“You know how some people will say to writers, "Why don't you just write a romance novel that sells a bunch of copies and then you'll have the money to do the kind of writing you want to do"? I always say that I don't have the skills or knowledge to do that. It would be just as hard for me to do that kind of writing as it would be to learn how to do any number of productive careers that I can't manage to make myself do.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting.”
“...When our thoughts revolve we are so often deceived into supposing that their violent movement is an indication of their vigorous originality, the upheaval of prejudice and fixed ideas, when all the time it is more likely that the machine which contains them is only an elaborate cement-mixer, and when the thinking is finished, those whirling thoughts are smoothed into the unchanged conventional mould and seeing them set solid enough to dance, to build, to travel upon, we would never dream of their first deceit, of the hope once roused by their apparently violent reorganisation...”
“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”

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