"Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in an eyeblink. This can only be because they have been rehearsed by us already, over and over, in silence and darkness; in such silence, such darkness, that we are ignorant of them ourselves. Blind but sure-footed, we step forward as if into a remembered dance."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Betrayal Quotes #Silence Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“There are no â€œoldâ€ movies-only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.”
“I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers”
“This woman talk like she from so deep in the country she got corn growing in her shoes.”
“democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.”

Source : ANNE STEVENSON “A RELATIVE STRANGER\”
“It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.”
“If women with the same skills as men were getting only 78 cents for every dollar a man earns, men would have long-since priced themselves out of the market.”
“We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.”

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