"What, after all, is the purpose of a womanâ€™s life? The purpose of a womanâ€™s life is just the same as the purpose of a manâ€™s life: that she may make the best possible contribution to the generation in which she is living."

-- Louise McKinney

#Men Quotes #Generations Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“There is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean”
“If you'll never leave me, I'll never leave you.”

Source : Jane Rogers (2001). “Island”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time.”
“It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.14, Faber & Faber
“Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.”
“The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.”

Source : Robert H. Bork (2009). “The Tempting of America”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image.”

Source : "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.
“The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.”

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