"Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of."

-- Paul Gauguin

#Artist Quotes #Soul Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.”

Source : Susie Orbach (1988). “Fat is a Feminist Issue ...: How to Lose Weight Permanently - Without Dieting”, Hutchinson
“When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.”
“E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.”
“Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.”
“The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?”
“All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals”
“exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.144, St. Martin's Press
“Until you have looked in depth at the system and found out where women in Egypt are not being cut through female genital mutilation, or where kids in Vietnam are not malnourished, or where hospitals in America are getting rid of the superbugs anyway - unless you have that level of curiosity about what's going on without you, you will always come in with your great new recipe and just ignore what's going on, and that will make you much less effective at what you're trying to achieve.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

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