"This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression."

-- Helen H. Gardener

#Giving Quotes #Support Quotes #Atheism Quotes

“I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.”

Source : Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.20, Routledge
“I've always been proud to work in the fashion world, but when I discovered how much pollution the apparel industry is responsible for - nearly 10 percent of global carbon emissions - I was shocked. I think it's really embarrassing for every one of us involved in the process.”
“I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.”
“As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.”
“The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to man: they hedge in free opinion and experimentation on all sides. Consider, for example, the matter of religion. It is debated freely and furiously in almost every country in the world save the United States, but here the critic is silenced. The result is that all religions are equally safeguarded against criticism, and that all of them lose vitality. We protect the status quo, and so make steady war upon revision and improvement.”
“God, who winds up our sundials ...”
“The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.”
“The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.”

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