"The other girls in the village never felt restless. Nhamo was like a pot of boiling water. 'I want...I want...,' she whispered to herself, but she didn't know what she wanted and she had no idea how to find it."

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Source : Nancy Farmer (2010). “A Girl Named Disaster”, p.2, Scholastic Inc.

Nancy Farmer

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“I didn't even want to sing, honestly. I started thinking about how long the journey was, how far all of us had come - me and Jessica Sanchez, Hollie Cavanagh and Josh Ledet and everybody. It's insane, man. It's not as easy as you think.”
“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”
“The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.”
“Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.”
“Power in America today is control of the means of communication.”

Source : Theodore Harold White (1973). “The making of the President, 1972”, Scribner
“Well, speaking as a feminist, I'm glad that women can lead--uh, groups of unspeakable magical evil." "Yes," Alan said gravely. "It'd be shoking if the evil magicians were sexist. For one thing, that would mean they were stupid, and having stupid enemies would be a terrible blow to my manly pride.”
“It is not enough to jump if you want to reach the sky.”
“I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old ....”

Source : Henry Clay (1842). “Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, of the Congress of the United States”, p.24

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