"One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do."

-- Amy Dickinson

#Women Quotes #Parent Quotes #Privilege Quotes

“There would be no need for the women's movement if the church and Bible hadn't abused them”
“Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.”

Source : "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.
“The wheel of progress revolves relentlessly and all the nations of the world take their turn at the field-glass of human destiny. Africa will not retreat! Africa will not compromise! Africa will not relent! Africa will not equivocate! And she will be heard! Remember Africa!”
“When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.”
“I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.”
“The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance”
“The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.”

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