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Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo Movements of people create change – not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo One thing I’ve learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce… and yet we’re still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo So many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we’ve got a lot of work to do.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I’ve always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo And we live longer. Our stuff is not “special interest” stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo If we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible – and it is completely within reach.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo I’ve always believed it’s important to make the invisible visible.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo An economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo It really moved the dial politically. That’s what is needed in the women’s movement – a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy.
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
Ada LeversonAda Leverson Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
Samuel SmilesSamuel Smiles I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale At present we live to impede each other’s satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale The time is come when women must do something more than the “domestic hearth,” which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale Domesticity and all that isn’t really for me.
Jimmy PageJimmy Page I’m not very bright about money. I’m not domestic either. If I don’t learn how to cook, maybe I won’t have to.
Natalie WoodNatalie Wood My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level.
Kapil DevKapil Dev
