"Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it."

-- Audre Lorde

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“Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.”
“You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.”
“The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.”

Source : Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”
“We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.”
“I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.”
“I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.”
“Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices about their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.”
“Men who get on well with women are usually those who know how to get on without them.”

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