"Thank you, God, for the dignity and beauty of self. The precious innate self. The only thing that can't be taken from us. The only thing we really own."

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Source : Marjorie Holmes (1991). “Inspirational Writings of Marjorie Holmes Deluxe Jacketed Edition”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

Marjorie Holmes

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“My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.”
“First ladies are doing a lot. But the job remains undefined, frequently misunderstood, and subject to political attacks far nastier in some ways than those any President has ever faced.”
“And there was no money in Chicago for a band.”
“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”
“More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how”
“Iâ€™ll try to be around and about. But if Iâ€™m not, then you know that Iâ€™m behind your eyelids, and Iâ€™ll meet you there”

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