"There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a known pedophile and his four perverse friends, and the news broke of the bodies of two children, dead after long-term physical abuse, found in a storage locker in California. What hardest for me is, I suppose, what's hardest for my country"

-- Laura Mullen

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Country Quotes

“To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra.]”
“Freedom costs you a great deal.”
“I meet with virtually everybody that comes down to Olympia, that Facebook messages me or emails me or calls me on the telephone. And, in particular, last year I was very proud to go speak before a group that I was invited to by a lesbian anarchist, I mean, my goodness gracious! I can listen and work with anybody.”
“The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.”
“I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive.”
“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.”
“Our lives are so short. And our time on this planet is so precious. All we have is each other.”
“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

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