"Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!"

-- Marilyn Johnson

#Library Quotes

“Women are racing all the time to try to have a perfect house and perfect kids and be a perfect cook. Men, somehow, for whatever reason, seem to be better able to pick and choose, to focus on things they like and that are important to them, and let the other things go.”
“I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy”
“When I look around, the biggest way in which we are failing to care for those in need is through ignoring climate change and acting like it doesn't exist. As a Christian, I believe that is something the church needs to know.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“For the first time in 15 years, Georgia this winter has its electric power guaranteed without deficit. This is a historic achievement.”
“You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act.”
“patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with challenging, alternative views.”

Source : Hazel Henderson (1988). “The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics”, Knowledge Systems
“There are far more talented people doing voice work than I.”
“She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.”

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