#ily

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#freedom #given #must #never #oppressed

Why then did she do it? She looked at the canvas, lightly scored with running lines. It would be hung in the servants' bedrooms. It would be rolled up and stuffed under a sofa. What was the good of doing it then, and she heard some voice saying she couldn't paint, saying she couldn't create, as if she were caught up in one of those habitual currents in which after a certain time experience forms in the mind, so that one repeats words without being aware any longer who originally spoke them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#experience

I just don't lose weight easily. ↗

— Melissa McCarthy

#i #just #lose #weight

I pray daily... for peace. ↗

— Paul O'Neill

#i #peace #pray

My dad was born poor, made a fortune during his life, and then died suddenly—murdered by his only son, leaving his vast estate to a daughter I didn’t know he had.
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— Jarod Kintz

#daughter #family #father #inherit #inheritance

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven't had a lesson since. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#walking

Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#food #insprinational #life #family

Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted in the mouth, and his rather stodgier companion, bursting with peel and raisins. There was enough food there to keep a starving family for a week. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#cake #food #meals #sandwiches #tea

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#humor #family

Chairs have legs. Four of them, like my father. Meow.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #chairs #dad #family #father