"If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive."

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Source : Dorothee Sölle (1984). “The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity”, p.33, Westminster John Knox Press

Dorothee Solle

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“The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.”

Source : "The Avengers: The Inside Story". Book by Patrick Macnee and ‎Dave Rogers, 2008.
“You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.”
“I like predictability because I know what I'm getting into.”
“Imagine if you've got the diva of all divas. If we've got to be somewhere at five or six o'clock, I tell her its time to go at noon so she gets those five hours to do what she needs to do. But were both kids at heart. She is the funniest person ever and she has a great sense of humor. We connect at a spiritual level.”
“I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.”
“One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.”
“I think the best part in going to the movies is you feel something and you relate whether its to family struggles or dimming your light for someone. I would say to never dim your light and to really, truly follow your dreams.”

Source : "Sparkle Break-out Star Tika Sumpter". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.ebony.com. August 28, 2012.
“And that said, this [issues of comfort women] is important for reopening a conversation in both Japan and in Korea and on their respective understandings of history. Policymakers are going to be trumpeting this deal, but you know, as of now, we just don't know whether the women themselves who are actually victims will think this agreement is enough.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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