"The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left."

-- Lena Dunham

#Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Men: Stand in solidarity with women. Women, if you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you're going to be punished no matter what for the 'sin' of being female. Battering is the most commonly committed violent crime in the United States. That's a man beating a woman. Globally, half of all women will experience life-threatening violence from a man. Half. That's more hatred than I can comprehend. Right now, that battlefield is such a slaughter that we can't even collect our wounded.”
“Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil - without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle.”
“How can there not already be a rapper named 'O'pinion'?”
“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.134, Hachette UK
“What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.”
“Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.”
“I donâ€™t feel that this is unfair. Thatâ€™s the thing about cancer. Iâ€™m not the only one, it happens all the time to people. Iâ€™m not special. This just intensifies what I did. It gives it more meaning. Itâ€™ll inspire more people. I just wish people would realize that anythingâ€™s possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try”

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