"To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship."

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down.”
“The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.”
“The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.”
“Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.”

Source : Aron Ralston (2010). “127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place”, p.342, Simon and Schuster
“We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.”
“Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error.”

Source : "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries" edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, (p. 241), 1972.
“Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste.”
“But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.”

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