Quarantines Playlist Quotes & Sayings

I am as proud to be called a feminist as I am to be called a Jew, or an American. Feminism is an indivisible part of who I am, and I remain mystified by the stigma that has been attached to the idea that women are human beings.
It sounds so obvious and simple to me, so motherhood and apple pie. And yet the idea that women are human beings remains news, a message that requires constant, clear, and artful reinforcement in a world that continues to undermine the confidence and abilities of girls and women. On the day that the intelligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only being to imagine. — Anita Diamant

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. — Abraham Lincoln

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties. — Susan Stewart

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils. — Lester Frank Ward

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again. — P. J. O'Rourke

Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. — Fritjof Capra

Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? — Bikram Choudhury

My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out." — Denise Duhamel