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“...because of women like us, I believe that in the end, tyranny will never succeed, and goodness will always vanquish evil. Although I may not see it in my lifetime, peace will overcome. I believe, I know, that if you have unshakable faith in yourself, in your sisters and in the possibility of change, you can do almost anything.
The work is hard. The immensity of what needs to be done is discouraging. But you look at communities that are struggling on a daily basis. They keep on---and in the eyes of the people there, you are a symbol of hope. And so you, too, must keep on. You are not at liberty to give up.
Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop.
My answer to her: I never will.”
― Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
The work is hard. The immensity of what needs to be done is discouraging. But you look at communities that are struggling on a daily basis. They keep on---and in the eyes of the people there, you are a symbol of hope. And so you, too, must keep on. You are not at liberty to give up.
Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop.
My answer to her: I never will.”
― Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
“You can't cure trauma when violence is ongoing, so the primary effort must be working for peace. You can't negotiate a lasting peace without bringing women into the effort, but women can't become peacemakers without releasing the pain that keeps them from feeling their own strength.”
― Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
― Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.”
― Don Quijote de la Mancha
― Don Quijote de la Mancha
“There is something in this world which no one has ever seen.
It is soft and sweet.
If it is spotted, I'm sure everyone will want to have it,
Which is why no one has ever seen it.
For this world has hidden it quite well, so that it is difficult to obtain.
But, there will come a day when it is discovered by somebody,
And only those who should obtain it will be able to find it.
That is all.”
― とらドラ!
It is soft and sweet.
If it is spotted, I'm sure everyone will want to have it,
Which is why no one has ever seen it.
For this world has hidden it quite well, so that it is difficult to obtain.
But, there will come a day when it is discovered by somebody,
And only those who should obtain it will be able to find it.
That is all.”
― とらドラ!
“Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once”
― Girl Meets Boy
― Girl Meets Boy
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