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“Maybe Sandy was right, and she was a saint, and saints were universally despised by their families.”

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“În casa aceasta ,zeița noastră a orezului este bunica ta!Ea este păstrătoarea visurilor !Uită-te cu atenție și ai s-o vezi cum stă pe tronul ei de lemn ,ținându-ne toate speranțele si visurile ,mari și mici,ale tale și ale mele ,în brațele ei puternice .Anii nu-i scad puterea !”

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Book:The Rice Mother

Source: The Rice Mother

“Ibrahim findet es einfach, dieses Erbe von sich zu weisen. Er kann sagen: Das hier will ich nicht. Aber das bringt weder ihm noch unseren Eltern Frieden. Maya findet es einfach, den vorgegebenen Weg zu gehen. Sie weiß, wie man Kompromisse schließt. Und trotzdem ergrauen ihre Haare, wo sie doch noch keine neunzehn ist. Aber wo ich stehe, das weiß ich nicht. Wieder in den Zwischenräumen, denke ich.”

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Book:Like water in your hands

Source: Like water in your hands

“Value systems of a nation come from families.”

Values Families Quotes Value System Nation

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.”

Life Wisdom Attitude Teaching Positive Personality Expectations Educational Expectation

Book:Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

Source: Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

“Whether love last but one brief span of time or for eternity, it is the only creative, inspiring, elevating basis for a new race, a new world.”

Marriage Feminism Anarchy Patriarchy Anarchism Pacifism Free Love Anti Marriage

Book:Marriage and Love

Source: Marriage and Love

“Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful moulder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?love,”

Love Destiny Anti Marriage

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“The best thing about India is the freedom that one enjoys here, which is also the worst thing about it.”

India Indian Politics Indian Society

Book:Sky Beyond the Clouds

Source: Sky Beyond the Clouds

“It was a response that comes instinctively to every Indian - the barometer for judging caste and creed was inbuilt. Right or wrong, it was a fact and you just dealt with it.”

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Book:Delhi Durbar

Source: Delhi Durbar

“The modern Indian believes that to be modern is to break away from tradition. This is ironic because modernisation has been our longest-running tradition.”

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Book:Nonsense

Source: Nonsense

“And Your modest ambition is to be a good housekeeper, isn't it?" "Well, yes, Papa; but not only that. I was thinking about it afterward by myself, and I think housekeeping is a the practical part of it - and that's a good big part too - but What I really want to be is a lovely, good, womanly woman, like Aunt Alice, you know.”

Femininity Housekeeping Homemaker

Book:Patty at Home

Source: Patty at Home