"Women should stick together. Didnâ€™t you learn anything yet?"

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Source : Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.23, Macmillan

Grace Paley

#Together Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Should Quotes

“There is nothing selfish about enjoying yourself. In fact, as wise people have long said and psychologists have since discovered, happiness makes people less self-focused and more altruistic.”
“One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barry Lopez from Dec 18, 2011
“Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.”

Source : "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.
“America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.”
“I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.”
“If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you must be willing to show the world all of who you are. You must have the guts to throw off the chains of modesty and mediocrity in order to be the light that the world needs.”
“Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship.”
“There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.”

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