"One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has higher rates of PTSD? Women who have escaped prostitution. That tells me that the war that men wage against women is actually worse than the wars they wage against each other."

-- Lierre Keith

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #People Quotes

“The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.”
“She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girlsâ€™ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.”
“The borders and boundaries of hip-hop have been broken all over the world. There's a great scene everywhere you go.”
“How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.”
“Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.”
“You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.”
“Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.”
“Along the way I have been able to choose some themes which ask questions - not necessarily force a message on anyone, but at least invite the audience to question things: jury service, dignity in dying, Ireland - and not least because they force me to ask myself questions. Where do I stand?”

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