"If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late."

“If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt. It's not right for the state to ask me to be both male and female. A choice needs to be made. They cannot hold me to both standards.”

Source : "Andrea Jones, Tennessee Transgender Woman, Goes Topless In DMV Protest". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

“To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.”

Source : Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, UNM Press

“I get her to school, we do homework at night, and at this age, their social calendars are really quite hectic. She's not driving yet, so I end up chauffeuring her around.”

“Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.”

“I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

“If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.”

“I like people not being able to be pigeon-holed.”

“The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon connected with terror, when I was carried on board. I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew; and I was now persuaded that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that they were going to kill me.”

Source : Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner (2017). “BREAKING THE CHAINS – The Essential & Powerful Narratives that Shook the Roots of Slavery (17 Books in One Volume): Memoirs of Frederick Douglass, Underground Railroad, 12 Years a Slave, Incidents in Life of a Slave Girl, Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom and many more”, p.1171, e-artnow