"Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens."

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Source : Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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“Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)”
“Whereever you are in life, however old you are, begin thinking about every day as the first day of your life.”
“There is the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form. This theory can be called the 'general theory of evolution,' and the evidence which supports this is not sufficiently strong to allow us to consider it as anything more than a working hypothesis.”
“Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.”
“The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.”

Source : "Torture and Resistance in Iran". Book by Ashraf Dehghani, 1971.
“Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.”

Source : Raymond Tallis (2015). “Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.”
“I like that there's very little mystery in how the artwork is actually made. It's the labor and the focus and the precision that drives it to the next level.”

Source : "An Interview with the Artist: Jacob Hashimoto". Interview with Pari Ehsan, www.paridust.com. September 26, 2014.

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