“As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.” ValuesSpeakLossRightsDialogueWomens RightsInheritanceSpeaks Out Author:Zainab Salbi
“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.” IfsStillsPastWaitingHoursPrayerLossMinutesIllusionInheritanceCompoundsCalendarsUnfinishedRosary Book:99 Poems: New & Selected Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.” MightFatherLossSonBearsDespairInheritanceComplacency Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro; I could be Irish; I could be Russian. I am spiritually a mix anyway, but I did have a solid childhood fortunately, because of some wonderful women who brought me up. I never had a father or a man in the house, and that was a loss...” KnowsMenFatherHouseParentLossWonderfulChildhoodInheritanceWonderful Woman Author:James A. Michener
“Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.” HumansHas BeensMadeDoneEarthValuesEvilGivenNationsNaturalLossHalfPovertyOughtSpeciesImprovementInventionProvidingInheritanceMonopolyCultivationWretchednessHuman Inventions Book:Agrarian Justice Source: Agrarian Justice
“A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.” MayFatherLiteratureLossSonBearsDespairInheritanceFather SonEquanimityLost Friendship Author:Niccolo Machiavelli