"Motherhood goes back in history to a time when a father had no way of knowing his children. Fatherhood only became known when class patriarchal society had established itself and imposed monogamous marriage on women. Motherhood is like sun and rain and plants, a quality and product of nature which does not require laws or systems in order to exist."

-- Nawal El Saadawi

#Children Quotes #Father Quotes #Rain Quotes

“Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.”
“Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.”

Source : William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.6, Harper Collins
“Try and fail,but don't fail to try.”
“The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past.”
“If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.”

Source : Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
“What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.”
“Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.”

Source : Kameron Hurley (2016). “The Geek Feminist Revolution”, p.264, Macmillan
“Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.”

Source : George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press

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