"They wondered at the consequence of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong." ??♀️
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"They wondered at the consequence of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong." ??♀️
"...if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might."??♀️
"All life is directed by one command and one command only - SURVIVE."
(Art from Boston Globe)
"Religion is always an irrational enterprise, no matter how ennobling it may be to the human spirit."
"Not a hope. I know where I am, and who, and what day it is. These are the tests, and I am sane. Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes."
"There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.
"That's how we usually feel about the things that wake us up."
"Monsters...don't dress like monsters; they dress like humans."???
"But when she expunged you, you were erased. The dead have names and grave markers. The expunged never existed."
"For rioting and fighting and surviving plagues and mourning friends..." #dedication #restinpower
"Don't ever trust the righteous...You'll never be perfect and they'll never forgive you for that."
"...there was no emptiness in silence...there was no loneliness in silence."
"When the world fell apart around you...You held on to the person you loved...and you built a new home. "
"Or was family, in any formation, its own kind of cult?"
"She had a bad reaction, almost physical to the thought. She was no ceramics artist where her relationships were concerned; she either cherished them or she smashed them. She had no desire to go sticking her thumbs in people, molding them to her will." Mother, Mother (Koren Zailckas)
