“... if you're poor and ignorant, with a child, you're a slave. Meaning that you're never going to get out of it. These women are in bondage to a kind of slavery that the 13th Amendment just didn't deal with. The old master provided food, clothing and health care to the slaves because he wanted them to get up and go to work in the morning. And so on welfare: you get food, clothing and shelter--you get survival, but you can't really do anything else. You can't control your life.” IfsKindChildrenCareWantedPoorDealsMorningMastersSurvivalSlaverySlaveIgnorantGet UpHealth CareWelfareClothingsAmendmentsShelterBondage Author:Joycelyn Elders
“For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.” IfsLongBookWantedClassCallingSurvivalLong TimeWoodsConvincedChristmas Author:Chris Evans
“I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are trying to save ourselves.” TryingHumansMadeWholeWantedFieldsSurvivalSpeciesBottomPopulationHuman SpeciesBumperStickerBumper Sticker Author:Ted Turner
“A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.” PeopleYearsArtImportantMatterAbleWantedArtistFeltStreetsFineSurvivalDecidedStudiosCashFine ArtsStreet Art Author:Shepard Fairey
“How badly I wanted to belong as I had when I was a young Mormon girl, to be simply a working part in the great Mormon plan of salvation, a smiling exemplar of our sparkling difference. But instead I found myself a headstrong Mormon woman staking out her spiritual survival at a difficult point in Mormon history.” WantedSpiritualYoungGirlFoundDifficultDifferencesPlansSurvivalSalvationSparklingHeadstrongPlan Of Salvation Book:The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith Source: The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith
“I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.” IfsWayChildrenDifferentUseHandsWould BeWantedGirlFightingEasyAcceptingMinesWeaponsSurvivalIllusionWeakDenialLiarsPropsMy GirlSheila Author:Agatha Christie
“We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.” IfsKnowsWantedSafeSurvivalCapacityTestsVain Book:On Love: A Novel Source: On Love: A Novel
“I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.” WritingWantedWrittenSurvivalGuidesZombieAnswering Questions Author:Max Brooks
“Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.” PeopleIfsBelieveIdeasWantedUniverseFoundGrowsWalksOne ThingTheoryEvolutionSurvivalLonelyDecidedFishesLegsBeachUncomfortableFrightenedSupporterLungsFundamentalistDaft Author:Peter Hitchens
“I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.” IfsWayTryingUseWantedAnswersForgetHealingHappenedSurvivalSavedForget It Author:Mariane Pearl