"The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Tired Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Goal Quotes

“I am like a table that eats its own legs off because itâ€™s fallen in love with the floor.”

Source : Cate Marvin (2007). “Fragment of the Head of a Queen: Poems”
“Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.”
“I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.”
“If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of the winds that whispered to it, of the birds that sang around it, of the storms that visited it, and of the motherly tree that held it and fed it until its petals were unfolded and its form developed.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”
“Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.”
“As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.”
“A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.”
“To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.”

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