"My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old."

-- Geraldine Brooks

#Mother Quotes #Rights Quotes #Years Quotes

“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.”
“Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.”
“The American people are frustrated.”

Source : "Florida's Attorney General Fighting Government Stall Tactics in Multi-State Health Care Battle". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2011.
“It's well known that actors are lousy writers.”

Source : "Memories of mischief". Interview with Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2005.
“To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically developed by the spiritual sciences of India and Tibet. We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism, nationalism, sexism, and materialism. We have not yet made peace with a land we took by force and have only partly paid for. We are a teeming conglomeration of people from different tribes who have yet to embrace fully the humanness in one another. And none of us can be really free until all of us are.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Dec 14, 2016
“Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.”
“Society is better off without certain people.”
“The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.”

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