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“We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities.”

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Graca Machel

Graca Machel is a Mozambican politician and activist who served as the Minister of Education and Culture of Mozambique. Born on October 17, 1945, she is an influential female leader committed to social development and educational reform. more

“Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and vision. Liberal Arts is the best movie about college I’ve seen since I don’t know what...Dryly affectionate and super-sharp. Elizabeth Olsen is every inch a star.”

Thinking Knows Art Stills Actors Stars Vision Know How Comedy College Shapes Directors Art Is Inches Affectionate Josh Liberal Arts Rare Things

Author:Owen Gleiberman

“Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.”

Return Ruins Reform Rejection Incentives Renewal Restoration Interim

Author:J. B. Jackson

“Landscape is history made visible.”

Made Landscape Visible

Author:J. B. Jackson

“It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.”

Giving Social Identity Position Permanent

Author:J. B. Jackson

“I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.”

Way Matter Whole Attention Too Much Fate Masters Mass Tired Hated Weekend Monday Reminding Deluded Respite Snapping Whiplash

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Hunger is the best pickle.”

Food Hunger Pickles

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication

“I wonder if music is the only expression of the soul that is not hopelessly compromised in communication.”

Ifs Soul Wonder Expression Communication Music Is

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Why does the longing for love have to be so acute, like a desperate thirst? Is it because love is wanting to be saved and we can never really be saved? Maybe love is really born of our fears. Love is the heart’s desire for a painkiller; a tearful plea for a great big epidural. Yes that’s it: love is the only anesthesia that really works. And so people with broken hearts are really those who are just coming to, and if you’ve ever seen someone come out of general anesthesia, you know that it looks a lot like the beginnings of a broken heart.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Heart Doe Bigs Desire Born Love Is Broken Longing Saved Desperate Thirst Fear Of Love Anesthesia Painkillers Maybe Love Epidurals

Author:Jonathan Hull

“Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos.”

Needs Long Said Might Bits Interesting Drama Tension Soundtracks Pathos

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

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