"Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affectioneither destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity."

-- Mary Wollstonecraft

#Mother Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Law Quotes

“You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us - brown people - were looked at as the 'Others.'”
“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.”
“I was the only westerner to succeed in a place that's like a toilet, and you always come out of a toilet with a smell.”
“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”
“A man is only as faithful as his options.”
“Be Hard on the issue, Soft on the person.”
“I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.”
“A thousand Dreams within me softly burn”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud (1994). “Poems”, Everyman's Library

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