"Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated."

-- Joni Rodgers

#Cancer Quotes #Fire Quotes #Profound Quotes

“Vegetable box schemes, local greengrocers, farmers' markets and organic stores are a great place to source package-free foods.”
“Your thin white face, chÃ©rie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.”
“Every actor pretends that they hate sex scenes, and the truth is that they all love them, and they're lying.”
“My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.”
“I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”
“You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.”
“Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when she gets into bed at night.”
“It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.”

Source : "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.

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