"All of my work in some way or another speaks to political issues according to the upbringing that I had, which was deeply rooted in principles."

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Source : Source: www.salon.com

Joan Wallach Scott

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“I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.”
“The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.”
“Water is one of the most basic of all needs - we cannot live for more than a few days without it. And yet, most people take water for granted. We waste water needlessly and don't realize that clean water is a very limited resource. More than 1 billion people around the world have no access to safe, clean drinking water, and over 2.5 billion do not have adequate sanitation service. Over 2 million people die each year because of unsafe water - and most of them are children!”
“With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is the product of a long evolution that was neither initiated nor terminated by Newton and Leibniz, but in which both played a decisive part.”
“People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.”
“Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.”
“If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.”

Source : "The hours" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.
“What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.”

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