Hopkinson Flag Quotes & Sayings

I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects. — Eve Ensler

His presence is the only place where invisible weight is lifted. The only place where hidden, broken spaces are mended. The only place where we are defined apart from our successes and our failures. — Jennie Allen

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today. — E. M. Forster

He came to believe that this was the very sort of thing that happened when you let yourself get caught in one culture's insistence that love ought to be like this or that. The key for people like him, he ultimately concluded, in this as in most matters, was to be nimble. Your privilege as an immigrant was to pick and choose your inheritance, maintain what suited you and participate merely to the extent of your patience and interest. It was not in your nature to align with one side fully, and so you couldn't help but make a life that was both apart and among. You didn't make one choice and stick with it but, rather, hundreds of minor choices with which you created a unique path through the corridors of old traditions and the avenues of the new. And you cultivated this dividedness because you carried always the imprint of that first move -- the decision to leave home. Indeed, this initiating choice, more than anything, was your true inheritance. — Saher Alam

I am about the people of the United States of America and the people of Houston, Texas. — Sheila Jackson Lee

The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing. — Elizabeth Towne

Being vegan is not a matter of "lifestyle." It is a matter of fundamental moral obligation. Is being vegan a matter of "choice"? Only insofar as we are able to choose to ignore our moral obligations not to exploit the vulnerable. — Gary L. Francione

Saracen had finished his barley and was happily chewing at the corner of a sheet that had been spread across a hedge to dry. He had once discovered a tablecloth, and ever since had been optimistic about the effects of dragging cloths off the top of things. — Frances Hardinge

We are going to start winning again. We don't win on trade, we can't beat Isil. We are going to win so much. We are going to make America greater than ever before. — Donald Trump

They're ruining the city, aren't they," remarked Rafe. "The backpackers. — Caleb Crain

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child — Gregory David Roberts

My heart was beating out of my chest. — Swoosie Kurtz

Pulling his weight back off of her, he nodded over his shoulder. "Show me what's in the bedroom."
Though her body leapt in expectation, she tried to play it cool. "Oh, just a dresser, a TV, a dead stuffed deer, and, oh, yeah, a bed."
"Forget the deer. Show me how the bed works. — Erin McCarthy

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is time for you to pray, and there is time for you to fight! — Sunday Adelaja