#be

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#because #being #few #i #i am

I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#belong #candidate #different #groups #honest

Your best friend is the person who not only knows all the important stories and events in your life, but has lived through them with you. Your best friend isn't the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you. ↗

— Irene S. Levine

#best-friends-books #definition #friendship #friendship

Diabetes is passed that way -- over and down, like a knight in chess. ↗

— Maile Meloy

#family #genetics #short-story #spy-vs-spy #family

Lucy wondered what it was she had found. A boy who wanted to be a writer. And a family who had picnics under the stars. She felt as if she had lost something. After all, that family now lived only in the pages of an old diary. ↗

— Kristin Kladstrup

#the-book-of-story-beginnings #family

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#friendship #love #friendship

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life #remember #secret #life

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#conflict #enlightenment #family #harmony #idealism

It's not about blood," says Lucius. "It's about who you share your life with. Where you feel you really belong. ↗

— Emma Cameron

#blood #family #share-your-life #family

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#earn #never #power #stand #which