"I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate."

-- Michelle Stuart

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“It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.”
“On accepting adversity in our lives: Always it is initiated by an act of will on our part; we set ourselves to believe in the overruling goodness, providence, and sovereignty of God and refuse to turn aside no matter what may come, no matter how we may feel. I mistakenly thought I could not trust God unless I felt like trusting Him. Now I am learning that trusting God is first of all a matter of the will. I choose to trust in God, and my feelings eventually follow.”
“I often compare my method of working to that of a well-meaning freed woman in a Northern state who is attempting to delineate the horrors of Southern slavery but with next to no resources, other than some paper and a pen knife and some people she'd like to kill”
“Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.”
“All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.”
“When we can really put ourselves in the shoes of the other, when we can reach new depths of empathy, then we can be effective ambassadors of peace.”

Source : James O'Dea (2012). “Cultivating Peace: Becoming a 21st Century Peace Ambassador”, p.67, Red Wheel/Weiser
“Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.”
“When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I donâ€™t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didnâ€™t really care.”

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