"Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority."

-- Pearl S. Buck

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“You can hurt more than you ever thought possible, then continue until you discover that hurting isn't that big a deal.”

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.185, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.”
“We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.”
“Piracy doesn't bother me that much, to be quite honest.”
“The story of the movie [Romeo + Juliet] is timeless. It's relevant then.”
“There are three things you cannot hide: smell of the garlic, fragrance of the flower and the wisdom of the teacher.”
“It is the great inspector, with a myriad eyes, who never sleeps, and whose daily reports are submitted, not to a functionary or department, but to the whole people.”
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

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