#ma

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less. ↗

— Carrie Chapman Catt

#adjustment #demand #equal #less #new

Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#family

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#against #been #campaign #come #during

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. ↗

— George Gillespie

#error #ignorance #lives #man #man lives

She is opinionated, as most of us are, but you won’t find yourself impaled on her arguments; she doesn’t charge at you as some people do. What [she] does is walk slowly and steadily into a conversational battle, somehow managing to deflect all incoming targets until she is standing in your corner with her flag dug firmly into the ground. I think it comes from the deep-seated confidence she possesses in her core. I think it is the powerful combination of encouraged individualism and a strong family unit. ↗

— Carrie Adams

#family

Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family. ↗

— Savo Heleta

#dignity #humanity #integrity #not-my-turn-to-die #righteousness

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#matrilineage #women #death

It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor. ↗

— Ina May Gaskin

#doctor #health #labor #normal #wisdom

It's b******* to think of friendship and romance being different. They're not. They're just variations of the same love. Variatons of the same desire to be close. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #romance #friendship

Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes." - commentary on Castles on the Sand ↗

— Emily Mah Tippetts

#brothers #castles-on-the-sand #fairytale #family #hero