"The very word woman in the writings of the church fathers stood for the basest of temptations... As women were lowered in the moral scale because of their identification with her at the very bottom of the pit, so they cannot rise themselves save as they succeed in lifting her with whose sins they are weighed."

-- Jane Addams

#Father Quotes #Writing Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.”

Source : Donald Hall (2007). “White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.”
“When I turned twenty-five, I did a six-week trip around Europe by myself. I'd never really done a European trip before and I'd definitely never traveled alone like that. I just had such a great time meeting people. I had such a great time seeing new cultures and different ways that people think and different ways that they live and different ways that they see the world.”

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“Tell Aretha Iâ€™ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.”
“Thereâ€™s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.”
“Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.”
“Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.”
“Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can.”

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