"I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?"

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Source : The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ch. 31 (1996)

Rebecca Wells

#Heart Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Missing Quotes

“You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone whos just going to be a little different than the person in there. If youre going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.”

Source : "GOP candidates focus on Louisiana" by John Helton, www.cnn.com. March 24, 2012.
“Im so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.”
“Young women need to know that abortion rights and abortion access are not presents bestowed or retracted by powerful men (or women) - Presidents, Supreme Court justices, legislators, lobbyists - but freedoms won, as freedom always is, by people struggling on their own behalf.”

Source : Katha Pollitt (2007). “Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture”, p.308, Modern Library
“To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.”

Source : Life magazine, December 05, 1960.
“Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive.”
“I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.”
“The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a great entertainer, and I always thought that was a good concept to bring along, that ultimately acting is an entertainment art and you have to be aware of the fact that you want people to be excited to be watching you.”
“I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.”

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