"It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh."

-- William Lloyd Garrison

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“It was frankly sort of confusing, the way everyone stared at our bodies exactly as they tried to erase the ideas of our bodies from our minds. We were supposed to get over ourselves but no one was supposed to get over us. The female body was our worst handicap and our best advantage - the surest means to success, the surest course to failure.”
“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
“We pine for kindred natures To mingle with our own.”

Source : Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1872). “Poems of Felicia Hemans”, p.382
“Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.”
“I think it's the process of demystification, and realizing that we are not talking about some supernatural nightmare - we're talking about a natural process that the planet has gone through before, and which animals have survived before.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.”
“The termites have got me.”
“Perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.”

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