"With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end. After that, each time a woman holds you in her arms and against her chest, these are merely condolences. You always come back to yell at your mother's grave like an abandoned dog. Never again, never again, never again."

-- Romain Gary

#Mother Quotes #Dog Quotes #Condolences Quotes

“You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.”
“I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.”
“Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.”
“The world will not end. This is ridiculous. I think it's like 2000. It's a great trick to do business and earn lots of money because stupid people hoard things. This is a stimulator of the economy.”
“So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (1995). “Gospel Medicine”, p.153, Rowman & Littlefield
“I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.”
“I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.”
“Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.”

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