"Marching with over a million women in support of our reproductive rights was one of the most empowering things I have done, both as a woman and as a Member of Congress."

-- Sheila Jackson Lee

#Rights Quotes #Empowering Quotes #Support Quotes

“If I had been a bricklayer Id still have been a journeyman.”
“Russia and the USA are two largest nuclear powers in the world; it's a really important relationship. How do we start making this work? How do we live with one another? How do we work with one another? We simply have to find a way to go forward.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.”
“...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.”
“I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.”
“I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism. Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, love is an absolute necessity for the survival of our civilization. To return hate for hate does nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Someone must have sense enough and religion enough to cut off the chain of hate and evil, and this can only be done through love.”
“I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.”

Source : "Newsflash: Allison Williams Has Arrived". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.
“We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.”

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