"Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result."

-- John Wilmot

#Marriage Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes

“The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.”
“I only finished first grade.”
“The red and white and starry blue Is freedom's shield and hope.”
“Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.”
“Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards.”

Source : Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.192, Vintage
“I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.”
“Believe me, I have better things to do than sabotage your friendships. No one else's world revolves around you, Cassandra." -Paige to Cassandra”
“In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.”

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