"My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect."

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Source : Ellen Willis (2012). “Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-And-Roll”, p.80, U of Minnesota Press

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“We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“The worst of faces still is human.”
“If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.”

Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.124, Feminist Press at CUNY
“We do live in an unsafe world. That's the truth. I'm dealing with that now, with my seven-year-old. He's grappling with the fact that the world is unsafe, and that there are people who do harmful things. I don't think there's anything wrong with presenting that idea. We can't lie to our children and pretend that the world is perfect, and everybody's happy, and everybody's out there to do good. It's just part of a bigger conversation.”
“Arab nation, Egypt, is not mentioned [in the Muslim Ban]? This is where facts are optional for the liberal media.”
“A dog has the soul of a philosopher.”
“I've been doing Isha Kriya meditation and love it. Don't get me wrong, it isn't easy or available everyday - but I'm making the effort to stop, sit, breath, and connect.”

Source : ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If I weren't skateboarding, I'd love to race cars. I like anything that's fast and active.”

Source : Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. October 15, 2007.

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