"... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves to our chromosomes and trigger mutations. Some cripple the immune system. Some light up our genes and so enhance the production of certain enzymes. If we could metabolize these chemicals into completely benign breakdown products and excrete them, they would pose less of a hazard. Instead, a good many of them accumulate."

-- Sandra Steingraber

#Light Quotes #Good Man Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head quarters. Its place is the home of every Iranian who believes in equal rights. This is currently the strongest women's movement in the Middle East.”
“If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.”

Source : "Peerless on the Pier". Town & Country, March 2005.
“The key to life was rearranging the furniture.”
“The laws of this world are for children.”

Source : Frank Wedekind, Edward Bond (1979). “Spring awakening: a full length play”, Dramatic Pub Co
“If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.”

Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272
“For the real winners, there are no finish lines.”
“I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves. Words become jewels in poetry, while they are often tools in other genres.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.”

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