I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.
Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.
One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.
In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of event...
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
The whole infrastructure of air travel was, and is, part of government policy. It is not a natural development of a free economic system - at least not in the way that is claimed. The same is true of the roads, of course.
An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
There was a time when the United States government earned the trust of its people. There was a time when most people believed that the United States government was protecting them.
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.
If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
