"I value mothers and motherhood enormously. For every inattentive or abusive mother in my fiction I think you'll find a dozen or so who are neither."

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Source : William Trevor (1999). “Death in Summer”, p.145, Penguin

William Trevor

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Dozen Quotes

“Women have always collected things and saved and recycled them because leftovers yielded nourishment in new forms. The decorative functional objects women made often spoke in a secret language, bore a covert imagery. When we read these images in needlework, in paintings, in quilts, rugs and scrapbooks, we sometimes find a cry for help, sometimes an allusion to a secret political alignment, sometimes a moving symbol about the relationships between men and women.”

Source : Miriam Schapiro (1985). “Miriam Schapiro: Femmages, 1971-1985 : Brentwood Gallery, 1221 South Brentwood Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri 63117 : May 17-June 30, 1985”
“Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.”

Source : Source: www.ncwit.org
“I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.”
“If you are my friend,you are down for me at all times,not just when it's convenient.”
“To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.”
“I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.”
“People in government are self-interested just like people in business.”
“The majority falls prey to the delusion popular in some circles that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth born of experience is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.”

Source : "The Individual’s Right to Bear Arms". capitalismmagazine.com. May 22, 2003.

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