Odete Ferreira Quotes & Sayings

[I] lay back and continued reading 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I had read only two years before but had already completely forgotten. I couldn't get enough of the battle between light and darkness, good and evil. And when the little man not only resisted the superior powers but also showed himself to be the greatest hero of them all, there were tears in my eyes. Oh how good it was. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Find people in worse situations than you and help them anyway you can — Sunday Adelaja

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human. — Dorothy Allison

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. — Lillian Gordy Carter

You're 100% responsible for your life. Stop whining and do something about it. — Mathieu Fortin

Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race. — H.L. Mencken

Feminism is what I do with my life, it's how I spend my days, it's my job, it's not just an opinion I have among many other opinions. — Jaclyn Friedman

Birds of fortuity flutter down on her shoulders ... — Milan Kundera

A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the seal on her victory. — Joseph Goebbels