"Old folks are the nation."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

“I think women are deeply interested in a conversation around fertility. It's not a conversation just for one age group of women, a conversation if you're post 30 or post 35. This [is] conversation about reproduction, about taking your own power with you and deciding for yourself.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.”

Source : Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.211, Penguin
“We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence.”
“I really think everything happens for a reason.”

Source : "Lily Collins opens up about Taylor Lautner: 'he's a great guy'". www.mtv.com. September 9, 2011.
“What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?”
“Now, especially in public places, you always have that unease. When the children were cast, if I thought that they might be victims of violence because of participating in this movie, we would have chosen children from outside this country.”
“The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity.”

Source : "Justice Kennedy: DOMA Had to Go Because It 'Humiliates Tens of Thousands of Children'" by Erik Kain, www.motherjones.com. June 26, 2013.
“All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.”

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