"I feel excited in that I think boys born to feminists have a leg up. At least, the ones I've met seem like they do. There's something really vital about that exchange. I think I'd only imagined, beforehand, handing down a feminism to a young girl. But I'm newly excited by the challenge of raising a boy."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Maggie Nelson

#Girl Quotes #Boys Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”
“At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.”
“I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up.”
“The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.”

Source : "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.
“The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.”
“the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.”
“A large number of students around the world don't really have access to high quality education. So, launching EdX allows students all over the world to have much better access to a high quality education from a university such as Harvard, MIT, Berkeley and others as we add more universities.”

Source : "News Stream" by Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. September 28, 2012.

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