"Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'"

-- Isadora Duncan

#Mother Quotes #Wine Quotes #Oysters Quotes

“If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.”
“Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the men...male homosexuality has historically been not adult to adult it has been adult to teenager”
“We need prizes as publishers... to focus attention on books, for people to know what to go look for. But often in my opinion and in probably everyone's opinion, the right books don't get chosen. Still we need books to be chosen even if they are not exactly the right ones, otherwise many people won't know what to read. As a publisher, I feel prizes are important for the publishing business. But as a writer, I think, writers shouldn't get too distracted by prizes because very often they don't go to the right person. You shouldn't take it too seriously if you haven't won a prize.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.”
“We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.”
“When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves.”

Source : Judith Plaskow (1990). “Standing again at Sinai: Judaism from a feminist perspective”, Harpercollins
“We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been.”
“War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.”

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