"I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine."

-- Margaret Sanger

#Children Quotes #Machines Quotes #Refrain Quotes

“There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.”
“We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family”
“The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.”
“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how”
“I'm just an average Canadian kid playing hockey.”
“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”
“. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.”
“Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.”

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