"Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me."

-- Amanda Donohoe

#Roots Quotes #Important Quotes #Minstrels Quotes

“Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.”
“To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.”

Source : "Gerhard Richter - Painting". Documentary, 2011.
“We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.
“I really do enjoy accompanying people - it's a challenge and a joy when you get it right.”
“Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.”
“For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.”
“The cost of leadership is self-interest.”
“As a Yoga Therapist, focus on increasing people's quality of life not on curing diseases.”

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