"My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?"

-- Rosalynn Carter

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“My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.”
“To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.”
“The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.”

Source : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1976). “My sister, life and other poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth orderâ€”the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.”
“I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.”
“Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.”

Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.94, Penguin
“In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.”

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