Bex Mader Quotes & Sayings

Everything you gain in life is either a gift or a test. Whichever it is, don't let it blind you. — Aishah Madadiy

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time. — Toni Morrison

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. — Robert Breault

Some of the onus falls on us to make ourselves available for the ball, because we need to play inside-out. That's when we're at our best. — Steven Hill

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants. — Carol Moseley Braun

Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired. — Lee Child

In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love
a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal
masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject. — Edward Hirsch

transformed, and transported by one specific guide - a visionary, an activist, an outrageous fighter and dreamer. I have come to know these women (and sometimes men) as Vagina Warriors. — Eve Ensler

Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us. — Thomas Paine