"Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open."

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Emma Goldman

#Atheism Quotes #Needs Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“A guru is needed not to worship, but to direct you.”
“My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.”
“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
“Thinking of this University [Ambedkar University] today, we are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi because if there was anyone who fought for the weak in India, the first one to raise his voice for Scheduled Castes, that was Gandhiji. There were social workers before him but not any people who raised this matter in the political arena as he did.”

Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1991). “Selected Speeches and Writings: January 1989 to November 1989”
“God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.”
“I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“I've made mistakes. More than my share. Hopefully, I've learned from them, but can't guarentee anything. There's only one thing I can promise. I'm taking this to the end." -Bobby Pendragon”
“What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is they who will want it most. Obviously, our democratic system tends to give power to those who hunger for it and gives every opportunity to those who don't want power to avoid getting it. Not a very satisfactory arrangement if power corrupts those who believe in it and want it.”

Source : Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.494, University of Chicago Press

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