Judy LaMarsh (1924–1980) Canadian politician, writer, broadcaster and barrister.
Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 10, Twenty-five to one, p. 278
Judy LaMarsh (1924–1980) Canadian politician, writer, broadcaster and barrister.
Source: Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage (1969), CHAPTER 10, Twenty-five to one, p. 278
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (1954) Current President of Egypt
Remarks by el-Sisi asking Egyptian women to go vote on the referendum during a cultural symposium organized by MOD Department of Moral Affairs on 11 January 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w50oWry07E. <br class="br">2014
“I was born with music inside me.”
Ray Charles (1930–2004) American musician
Home, p. 8
Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story (1978)
Context: I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of, since none of my relatives could sing or play an instrument. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me — like food or water.
Yōsuke Kubozuka (1979) Japanese actor
Yôsuke Kubozuka Talk ‘Silence’, Martin Scorsese, His Reggae Career, Japan and More http://www.cutprintfilm.com/features/interviews/yosuke-kubozuka/ (March 16, 2017)
Margaret Sanger book Woman and the New Race
Source: Woman and the New Race, (1922), Chapter 8, "Birth Control; A Parents' Problem or Woman's?"
Lydia Canaan Lebanese singer-songwriter
From Hostage to Injustice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBYo3oXInGU, a speech delivered at the 26th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, June 17, 2014
“I still think too much about the mothers
And ask what is man born of woman.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Preparation," trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Unattainable Earth (1986)
Context: I still think too much about the mothers
And ask what is man born of woman.
He curls himself up and protects his head
While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running,
He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit.
Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy.
“I suppose being right will have to compensate me for being poor—the story of my life, I fear.”
Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana
Source: Tigana (1990), Chapter 1 (p. 14)