"My idea was that if I took a picture of somebody and years later, or whenever, they would die and if someone wanted to know who this person was, they could take one of these pictures and it would tell who the person was."

“Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world ...”

Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

“By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish act -- it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves but for the many others whose lives we touch.”

Source : Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

“There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.”

“My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

“The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.”

Source : Elizabeth O'Connor (1983). “Eighth Day of Creation: Discovering Your Gifts and Using Them”

“An individual should hold an awareness of God and His love all the time. He should not separate his consciousness from the Divine while he journeys on the way, nor when he lies down nor when he rises up.”

“Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.