"Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most."

-- Kate Millett

#Mother Quotes #Betrayed Quotes #Committed Quotes

“Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.”

Source : Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.64, Vintage Canada
“Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.”
“We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment.”
“Sven-Göran Eriksson, confronted with arguably Europe's weakest qualifying group, has a problem; it is the same one that afflicted Jacques Santini, the France coach at the time, before Euro 2004. Not that there are no easy matches at international level; rather, there are no hard ones. In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship finals, France faced a group not of death, but of sun-block, comprising Slovenia, Israel, Cyprus and Malta, which they duly won by ten points, averaging 3.6 goals per game. We all know what happened next.”
“A black, a Puerto Rican and a Mexican are in a car. Who's driving? The police.”
“I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.”
“Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.”
“When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time.”

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