"Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for."

-- Dalton Trumbo

#Mother Quotes #Country Quotes #War Quotes

“The mighty hunter," I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. "He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.""One scary old lady," he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. "You didn't hear what she told me when I got up - you're so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that's not the creepiest thing you've ever heard." His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. "Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie.”
“Everything that happens to you matters to me.”
“Oh God, it's her, run!”
“Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.”
“Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.”
“Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.”
“I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.”

Source : Faith Ringgold, New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, N.Y.), Akron Art Museum (1998). “Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts”, p.61, Univ of California Press
“The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty”

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