“Not everything has to have a point. Some things just are. ”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."
"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“A person without curiosity may as well be dead.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“Why are we acting as if we're angry. Are we angry?”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“A person can have a happy and fulfilling life without children.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“You weren’t always born to the right parents. And parents didn’t necessarily get the kids they were meant to raise.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“You can’t deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“Some people never get over their first loves. They spend their whole lives trying to recapture the thrill. Sometimes, after fifty years they get back together. They meet at some reunion or other and realize they were meant to be together.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“He’s not like anything. He’s a person who just happens to have been born with something he can’t control. It could have happened to you. It could have happened to any of us. So the next time you see someone in a chair, someone spastic, just imagine if that were you! The same you who’s standing here now, but your mind’s been trapped inside a body you can’t control!”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“forever. Fifteen years ago she’d woven ribbons through”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
“Zillions of puppies … that’s what they got up in heaven. The softest dogs you’ve ever seen. And no poop. I don’t know what happens to the poop but it’s not in heaven. Because heaven’s clean. All those fluffy white clouds. And these zillions of puppies just jumping from cloud to cloud and you get to run and chase them all day.”
― Judy Blume, quote from Summer Sisters
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“To discourage future dark moments, I believe we must nourish the minds of our young with learning that creates understanding between ethnic and religious groups.”
― quote from Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
“Why the Romans, Father?” I asked him one afternoon. “Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead,” he answered.”
― Judith Merkle Riley, quote from La Jeune Fille aux Oracles
“Lei era Rosalba, la luce con cui rinasce tutti i giorni la speranza di un giorno buono.”
― Silvana de Mari, quote from The Last Dragon
“Women of the world, our time has come!
Our leaders have taken us down a road of destruction. Aggressive, masculine reflexes have created more violence and rage, have left us with little hope for remedy in the Middle East or anywhere else. Our hope of
survival lies in honoring the feminine, that which a patriarchal society has tried vehemently to squelch.
Their legacy has left us living in a deluded universe, a world that worships a fixed and righteous view. In order to feel secure, we only welcome change that men in power determine for us. Our patriarchal religions are prime examples of this, creating a one-sided world gone from static, brittle believes.
Let us remember that patriarchy is founded on division not unity. We concentrate on the differences instead of giving importance to the similarities. There is good and bad, there is black and white. We are constantly in a state of opposites. Where does unity come into the picture?
It is no wonder women have been seen as evil, an abhorrent influence that must be destroyed. Intuition, psychic energy, spiritual force, the unknown, creation itself…merely feminine mockeries of sanity—or so it has been claimed by religious men in power. Women have died at the stake for challenging such beliefs, and to this day dogmatic religious views have persisted in undermining the feminine.
Therefore it is up to us to develop a balance between the feminine and the masculine. That’s the formula for a stable democracy. Wisdom and compassion working together will swing the pendulum away from aggression and fear toward peace and conciliation. I’ll venture to say it’s already begun. We have reached a critical mass.
Now the energy of woman is being powerfully unleashed. Negative powers have reached levels where enough of us are reacting against them to instigate change. The critical mass that we have reached cannot be turned back, and the force of it will literally shift the energy of our planet, creating a new paradigm.”
― Perri Birney, quote from Pure Vision: The Magdalene Revelation
“Il silenzio sa essere ostile.
Se non impari a tenerlo lontano, si insinua nelle fessure del rapporto, riempie le crepe e le allarga.
Col tempo crea una distanza e non te ne accorgi.”
― Donato Carrisi, quote from The Lost Girls of Rome
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