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“Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, ‘Free to be You and Me.’ Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words

“Yet what greater defeat could we suffer than to come to resemble the forces we oppose in their disrespect for human dignity?”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words

“So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.”- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The following quote seems to sum up this year over all.

“This year had been one for the books. And by that, Jason meant a book that got doused in gasoline, set on fire, and kicked over a cliff.”― Katherine McIntyre, Color of a Soul

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Simple Sunday- Space

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“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”-Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.”-Sojourner Truth

“I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend…I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend…” – Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives

“I’ve discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there’s no need to explain it to them. The other half can’t understand and I couldn’t explain it to them. If someone doesn’t know why, I can’t explain it.”-Sally Ride

“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.” – Carl Sagan

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“For anyone aspiring to be anything, I would like them to realise dreams require work. So work big time.”-Lilly Singh

“I want people to understand and embrace that the art that inspires our technological dreams is just as important as the tech it helps us create.”-Wil Wheaton

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes

“It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.” – Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”- William Butler Yeats

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Simple Sunday-color

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“Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.” -Paul Gauguin

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.”= Georgia O’Keeffe

“There’s a reason we don’t see the world in black and white.” – Celerie Kemble

“This is a story about the color blue, and like blue, there’s nothing true about it. Blue is beauty, not truth. ‘True blue’ is a ruse, a rhyme; it’s there, then it’s not. Blue is a deeply sneaky color.” – Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d’Art

To my surprise, I had not just doodled, I had prayed (I drew new shapes and names of each friend and focused on the person whose name stared at me from the paper). I had though OF each person as I drew but not ABOUT each person. I could just sit with them in a variation on stillness. I could hold them in prayer.”
― Sybil MacBeth, Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God

Rich colours actually look more luminous on a grey day, because they are seen against a somber background and seem to be burning with a lustre of their own. Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks.”
― Chesterton G.K.

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Simple Sunday- Music

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“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria von Trapp

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

“Music should be your escape.” – Missy Elliott

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” – Aaron Copland

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”- Chinese proverb

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Simple Sunday- Magic

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“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. Your sister may be able to see the future, but you yourself can shape it, boy. Do not forget that… there are many kinds of magic, after all.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible

“The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.” Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

“Of course you don’t believe in fairies. You’re fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn’t a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?” – Neil Gaiman, Fables & Reflections

“I know it is something of a cliche to say that love makes all things possible, but I believe it does. It is not a magic wand that can be waved over life to make it all sweet and lovely and trouble free, but it can give the energy to fight the odds and win.” – Mary Balogh, Simply Magic

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Simple Sunday- Humor

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“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”-Margaret Mead

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”-Theodore Roosevelt

“You can’t trample infidels when you’re a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.”-Terry Pratchett

“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”-Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”– Rita Rudner

“I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.” – Neil Gaiman, The Kindly Ones

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Simple Sunday- History

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“And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.”-George Takei

“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”-Corrie Ten Boom

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”-Elie Wiesel

“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”-Mark Twain

“The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”-Anne Frank

“History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.”-C. S. Lewis

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Simple Sunday- Gardening

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“It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.”- Jane Goodall

“I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it’s in the blood.”-Terry Pratchett

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.”-Morihei Ueshiba

“You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.”-Vivienne Westwood

“A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.”-D. Elton Trueblood

“You can pick wild strawberries with your eyes closed, locating them by smell, for they are two parts perfume to one part taste. An hour of searching might yield a handful if you’re lucky. Wild strawberries can’t be encouraged, nor can they be discouraged: They come to you unbidden and unearned. They appear, or do not, by the grace of the sun.”-Hope Jahren

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Simple Sunday- Writing

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“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.”-Pearl S. Buck

“That’s what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.”-Anne McCaffrey

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”-Benjamin Franklin

“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Writing is like travelling. It’s wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.”-Langston Hughes

“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.”-Octavia E. Butler