"There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies."

-- Susie Orbach

#Body Quotes #Young Quotes #Young Women Quotes

“I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.”
“What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?”
“A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.”

Source : Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.397
“Theres just something wonderful about getting a small group of people together in an isolated location, and theres something about cabins themselves that imply both horror and fun. When you go to a cabin, youre usually going to have a good time.”
“If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.”
“Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.”
“The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.”
“I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.”

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