"We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also."

-- Barbara Deming

#Voice Quotes #Differences Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.”
“Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.”
“I don't think of myself as "a lesbian musician." It's not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician.”
“Somehow we allow, if a character goes to the dark side, if we're hooked into that character - I'm obsessed with Peaky Blinders. Those characters are awful, and yet you root for them. You love them! Same with Breaking Bad. That's not as easy in a feature.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.”

Source : Rachel Field (1938). “ALL THIS, and HEAVEN TOO”
“I'm interested in utopian communities of the past. Many of them didn't survive and I'm examining closely the reasons they failed.”
“Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.”
“So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.”

Source : Billy Collins (2013). “Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems”, p.209, Random House

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