"Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female"

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

#Country Quotes #Care Quotes #Female Quotes

“I can now officially to the wife "It's work, darling" I have to watch racing. I have to watch every second. And actually, my wife who can't stand racing has got into it and once she understood the politics it becomes more interesting for non-racing people I think.”

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“His hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back just to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, "I think," he says, "my heart is going to explode," and I wish, more than ever, that I knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. Because this. This is everything.”
“I've learned that you can't make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they'll panic and give in.”
“Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.”
“She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.”
“You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.”
“The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.”
“The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they died and their voices infected him, coursed through his body, poisoned him. He didn't know how to turn off the noise, or turn the hate back out onto the world like the rest of us. He turned it on himself. You could see that from the scars on him.”

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