"The #‎ poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty."

“Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.”

Source : George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

“Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves or their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.”

“I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.”

“Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.”

“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”

“The confident ask questions to learn what will connect. The insecure just keep talking with the hope something will stick.”

“When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.”

Source : Margery Williams Bianco (2016). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Become Real”, p.4, Lulu.com

“The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.”

Source : "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 7: "Mother-Right", 1971.