“Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.”
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“I was seventeen years old, a married woman without real responsibilities, miserable about my mixed-up emotions, afraid there was something awfully wrong with me because I didn't enjoy being a wife. Worst of all, I didn't have enough to do.”
“Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.”
“One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person.”
“I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.”
“Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.”
“France is an old country that needs to wake up.”
“Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown.”
“Now Spring returns; but not to me returns.”
“Sometimes the issue is about whether families and communities think girls are even worthy of an education in the first place. It's about whether girls are valued only for their labor and reproductive capacities or for their minds as well. And it's about whether women are viewed as second-class citizens or as full human beings entitled to the same rights and opportunities as men.”
“The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.”
“Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”
“Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.”
“Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.”
“I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.”
“No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.”
“People need such a small amount of money to deal with their own daily life. Because wherever I went to school they taught me about millions of dollars. I dealt with billions of dollars in national plans and investment plans and so on. Not this tiny money, $27 for 42 people.”
“I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.”
“I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?”
“Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy circumstances. Or if you can't get access to family planning, your chances of surviving and being able to bring your kids up if they come one right after the other, that locks you into a cycle of poverty.”