"Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live."

-- Bayard Taylor

#Taken Quotes #Character Quotes #Giving Quotes

“The security of the woman is the security of society.”

Source : "9 Great Quotes From The Women In The World Conference" by Lauren Brown, www.businessinsider.com. March 12, 2012.
“I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame.”

Source : Oscar Speech, www.oscarworld.net. 1993.
“To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.”
“I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.”
“The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.”
“What's going on in Russia is not that the public is homophobic, but that the Kremlin has unleashed a war. You don't fight a war by distributing well-meaning books about how the other side really isn't so bad.”
“No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.”
“for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.98, Applewood Books

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