"The face... always the face. The body can [have] muscles or [be] too skinny -- I don't care."

-- Louise Bourgoin

#Body Quotes #Care Quotes #Faces Quotes

“I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.”
“Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.”

Source : "Is weight the new race?" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2006.
“After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.”
“This whole fuss did not only damage Fischer's image, but that of the USA as well. The way the Americans treated one of their most popular citizens did not make a positive impression worldwide.”
“Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.19, Shambhala Publications
“If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.”
“Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.”

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