"I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved"

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#Church Quotes #Loud Quotes

“We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which father knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.”

Source : Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett
“But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.”
“You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.”

Source : "I'm not in that league" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2004.
“I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.”
“My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird”
“It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.”
“Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs.”
“I do think women generally are more humble.”

Source : "Kay Bailey Hutchison: I Thought About Running For President" By Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.

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