Memnons Mother Quotes & Sayings

Girls showed up in leggings to protest the sexist policy, bearing placards asking ARE MY PANTS LOWERING YOUR TEST SCORES? — Laura Bates

Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion. — Sarah Dessen

I asked this question: How can I think about my brain when it's my brain doing the thinking? So is this brain pretending to be me thinking about it? — E.L. Doctorow

The hipster narrative about gentrification isn't necessarily inaccurate - young people are indeed moving to cities and opening craft breweries and wearing tight clothing - but it is misleading in its myopia. Someone who learned about gentrification solely through newspaper articles might come away believing that gentrification is just the culmination of several hundred thousand people's individual wills to open coffee shops and cute boutiques, grow mustaches and buy records. But those are the signs of gentrification, not its causes. As — Peter Moskowitz

In one corner of the square is a manger scene with two live sheep, a bed of hay, a couple of cows. The baby Jesus is a brown-faced doll lying in his crib, but Mary and Joseph are real and dressed in period garb. Joseph hoists a staff, Mary sports her virginal blue robes. As I walked by the other day, Joseph balanced on the crib, light bulb in hand, reaching toward an electrical socket. Mary, I guess, was taking a break. She sat on the edge of the crib. Her blue robes were hiked high enough to reveal Doc Marten boots beneath. She sipped a can of Coke and smoked. — Laura Kelly

As you become your own advocate and your own steward, your life will beautifully transform. — Miranda J. Barrett

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause. — Michael Kazin

I was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and I came to attend high school in Massachusetts when I was about 15 years old. — Nina Garcia

We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds. — Swami Vivekananda

Hope is no basis for a defense policy. — Margaret Thatcher

I'm on every worst-dressed list imaginable. — Kathy Griffin

Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory. — Mahatma Gandhi

Benjamin Franklin had a thirteen-week plan for moral perfection in which he practiced one virtue every week so as to turn it into a habit. — 4 Hour Must Reads

Just in case we forget that "weareheretogetagoodfoundation sowecangotocollegeliveuptoourpotentialgetagoodjoblivehap pilyeverafterandgotoDisneyWorld," we have a Job Day. — Laurie Halse Anderson