"When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers."

-- Maxine Hong Kingston

#Girl Quotes #Children Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!”
“...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.”
“If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.”
“Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap.”

Source : George Sampson (2013). “Seven Essays”, p.67, Cambridge University Press
“I couldn't remember what life was like before I started walking.”
“A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.”
“They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?”
“The universe and the light of the stars come through me.”

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