Widows And Strength Quotes & Sayings

Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false. — Paul Copan

No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe. — Adrienne Rich

The self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. It defines what you can and cannot do. Expand the self-image and you expand the "area of the possible." The development of an adequate, realistic self-image will seem to imbue the individual with new capabilities, new talents, and literally turn failure into success. — Maxwell Maltz

I dream of a day when governments and societies no longer value blood and race over children, and the millions of unwanted children are freed at birth for adoption by people of every race. Aside from all its other benefits, massive adoption is the best assurance that people will never again slaughter the "other." When members of every family are one of those "others," such hatreds will become, finally, impossible. — Dennis Prager

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design. — Venus Williams

You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony. — Joseph Heller

Sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths. — Julia Sweeney

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children. — Francis Ford Coppola

He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears. — Erin McCarthy

Waiting is often the best part of the story," he explains. "After all, once you know the story, its over. — Ella Frank

It would be easy to stay in the dark, to drown. Slowly, I lower my hands and force myself to look at the sunlight. — Victoria Aveyard