"Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed away in 2003. I became very guilty and began to spend a lot of time with older people. I listened carefully to their stories."

-- Mabel Cheung

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #People Quotes

“[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . . setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate.”
“I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.”

Source : 1982 Owen Brademas. The Names, ch.1.
“... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (2014). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.88, Open Road Media
“As a nation we've been faced with so many tragedies since the beginning of this Millennium and I believe we have even more reason to pray. Many people don't feel capable in that area and I wanted to create music that helped them find the words that could bring peace.”
“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.”
“Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.”
“It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.”
“A lesbian is a radical or she is not a lesbian.”

Source : Nicole Brossard (1988). “The aerial letter”, Womens Pr

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