Quote for Today: J.M. Coetzee
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men …
Quote for Today: Margaret Sanger
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles …
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I had, I unrolled the rug. It was a …
Quote for Today: Suzy Kassem
If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only …
Quote for Today: Frida Kahlo
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing. —Frida Kahlo
Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living. ―Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Quote for Today: Ellen Bass
to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with …
Quote for Today: Susanna Clarke
Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked …
Quote for Today: John Soos
To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the …
Quote for Today: Charles Taylor
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our …