"The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms."

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Margaret Cavendish

#Owl Quotes #Bats Quotes #Truth Is Quotes

“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.”
“The best interpreter of the law is custom.”
“If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.”
“Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.”
“I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.”
“When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.”
“I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history”

Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.80, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.”

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