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“I`m tired, very weary, and I cry for my sisters. Tears get the nothing, of course. One needs a generation of warriors who can`t be tired out or bought off. Each woman needs to take what she endures and turn it into action. With every tear, accompanying it, one needs a knife to rip a predator apart; with every wave of fatiguem one needs another platoon of strong, tough women coming up over the horizon to take more land, to make it safe for women. I`m willing to count the inches. The pimps and rapists need to be dispossessed, forced into a mangy exile; the women and children - the world`s true orphans - need to be empowered, cosseted with respect and dignity”
― Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant
― Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant
“Unable to perceive the shape of You,
I find You all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,
It humbles my heart,
For You are everywhere.”
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I find You all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,
It humbles my heart,
For You are everywhere.”
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“Whomever you become, whatever you make yourself into, that is who you always were.”
― Educated
― Educated
“I have this compulsion for freedom,for a state of liberation. It is an urge so strong, so all-encompassing that it overwhelms everything else. I cannot stand my life as it is. I cannot stand to be here, in this town, in this school. I have to get away.I have to work and work so that I can leave and only then can I create a life that will be liveable for me.”
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
“I am desperate for change, endlessly seeking novelty, where i can find it.”
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
― I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
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