"I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman."

-- Diane von Furstenberg

#Running Quotes #Badass Quotes #Independent Quotes

“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.”

Source : Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”
“No people ever rise higher, as a people, than the point to which they elevate their women.”
“If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice.”
“Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed for hundreds of thousands of years wakes up, and carries on as if the daylight and the humans and the changes to the landscape have all been an illusion.”
“You steal the limelight, you steal the market share”
“Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.”

Source : "Should we drop kids off at the park - by themselves?", www.today.com. May 21, 2010.
“When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody who has an extra dollar in his pocket? God forbid that the Democratic Party should become a mere gathering of the unsuccessful!”
“It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.”

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