Quotes & Sayings About Raising Strong Daughters

Amnesty International Survey found that 25 percent of people believe a woman is to blame for being raped if she dresses provocatively. — Caitlin Moran

The idea behind it did come out of my love for travel shows. I loved them as a little kid and I loved Anthony Bourdain, but I really did want to see one about LGBTQ communities and culture and the specific country that we visit. Of course it is about the joys and the triumphs and the nightlife, but sadly, unfortunately, it's also about the discrimination that people face, because that's the reality. — Ellen Page

He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer. — Henry David Thoreau

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God. — Mahatma Gandhi

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady. — Margaret Thatcher

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts. — Leo Tolstoy

Glittering news chips in men's sideburns and women with braided microfilament glo-strands stepping around me, laughing with silver lipsticks. Kaleidoscope streets: lights and traffic and dust and coal diesel exhaust. Muddy and wet. — Jason Heller

Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records. — Clint Catalyst

One night you will ask me for something I cannot give. — Holly Black

Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran. — Jane Harman

There's no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security of the United States, they'll go after that information and they'll take it. — Edward Snowden

When someone is happy and satisfied with himself and things around him, divine grace resides at his face. — Girdhar Joshi

Besides, taking a chance on romance is a dance in tight pants. It's risky but frisky. But make the right move and your in the groove. — Lisi Harrison

I'm following a dream and as far as I know there are no rules in a dream.... — Danny Kemp