"The capacity to forgive is not just about Rwandan women. It is about a willingness of women all over the world to work across conflict lines, to say, "Yes, I'm a Serb. Or yes, I'm a Muslim. Or yes, I'm a Croat. But I'm also a mother.""

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Swanee Hunt

#Mother Quotes #Forgiving Quotes #World Quotes

“What is a week-end? Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey.”
“But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.”
“Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!”
“I've been close friends with Katy since teenagers, before she was Katy Perry. She's always been a great resource for me to pull from and watch - from her choice of how public she wants to be about her personal life on down. I also watched her develop from the coffee-house singer-songwriter I knew to her be to playing arenas and killing it.”
“A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players: witnesses crimping their faces, policemen scribbling in pads and making radio calls, EMS guys unfolding equipment, tubes and wheels.”

Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.9, Random House
“I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jessie Cates". "'night, Mother", www.imdb.com. 1986.
“It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.”
“So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.”

Source : Don E. Saliers, Emily Saliers (2005). “A song to sing, a life to live: reflections on music as spiritual practice”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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