"I grew up with a lot of brothers and I don't have any sisters, so for me it's really important to develop my sisterhood. It's something I've always coveted."

-- Mickalene Thomas

#Brother Quotes #Sisterhood Quotes #Important Quotes

“It's kind of funny. When I got my diagnosis - cancer - I said to myself, 'Why me?' And then, the other day, when I got the good news, I said the same thing.”
“You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.”
“You might get some serial killers who are born with a chip missing, but for the most part I don't think anyone is born bad.”

Source : Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.
“A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
“To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.”
“Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.”
“It takes madness to find out madness.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.52, Wildside Press LLC
“Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."”

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