Mara > Mara's Quotes

“People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Everything want to be loved.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”
― Gloria Steinem

“so whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.”
― Gloria Steinem

“Mes hanches
ton bassin éclipsait
un rivage;je m'étendais
pour ne plus revenir
j'ai hurlé ma famine
arrachée à toi”
― Natasha Kanapé Fontaine

“Si j'étais ce pigeon qui vomit
sur les hommes de bronze
fausses idoles carnassiers ivres
se tâtant le pectoral gauche
avec la main droite
lavée par les colombes

Qui d'autre est capable
de provoquer l'amnésie
octroyer la carence
à ceux qu'il gouverne

Qui d'autre sait appeler union
ce qui est discorde
pour s'arracher le premier
pour s'arracher le meilleur
des confins de toutes les colonies

qui d'autre sait appeler croissance
ce qui est régression”
― Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Bleuets et abricots

“Mon peuple est un peuple de nuages
nous ne les pelletons pas l'hiver
la neige nous élève en êtres insurgés
raquettes aux pieds, joues saillantes”
― Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Bleuets et abricots

“Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“Nothing is too ugly for this world, I think. It’s just that people pretend not to see.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“Sometimes I think the only real division into two is between people who divide everything into two and those who don't.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Always ask the turtle.”
― Gloria Steinem

“I felt breathless, like every question was a step up a stairway.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“Sea cual fuere la sustancia de la que están hechas las almas, la suya y la mía son idénticas”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights