"Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies."

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Source : "21 Leaders for the 21st Century". Interview for Women's E News, 2008.

Leymah Gbowee

#Bears Quotes #Burden Quotes #Nurture Quotes

“In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for achieving freedom and solidarity in economic life; the ways believed to correspond more closely with justice and freedom for the distribution of the means of production and the products of labour among men. Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity.”

Source : Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.22, PM Press
“I want to be inside Nic Pizzolattos brain.”

Source : "Michelle Monaghan Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Joining the Show, Working with Cary Fukunaga, the Mood on Set, Future Projects, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2014.
“The journey to wholeness requires that you look honestly, openly, and with courage into yourself, into the dynamics that lie behind what you feel, what you perceive, what you value, and how you act. It is a journey through your defenses and beyond, so that you can experience consciously the nature of your personality, face what it has produced in your life, and choose to change that. Words lead to deeds. They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.”

Source : Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company
“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.”
“Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to putÂ reason aside and make something beautiful.”
“A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.”
“No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.”

Source : Elizabeth Hawes (1954). “It's Still Spinach”
“I'm not one to hide anything, but I don't feel the need to comment directly on [my relationships]...I think it would be a shame to not live in the moment and not enjoy everything that's happening in fear of other people's opinions.”

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