"In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next."

-- Samuel R. Delany

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“Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.”
“In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local Maharajas believed in education for everybody. The Syrian Catholic Church built schools for boys and girls. And then the Communist party, which took over politics for a period of time, had very strong social policies that benefited women. As a result, girls got into school. It was the first part of the country where towns could claim to be 100 percent literate. And so there, you're going to have a sex ratio at birth that's normal.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.”
“... people have founded vast schemes upon a very few words.”
“the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.”

Source : Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books
“We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.”
“After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.”
“To be enlightened is to know that heaven is not "coming." Heaven is here.”

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