#ra

If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#american women #benefiting #budget #budget cuts #children

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#empathy #essays #fiction #stranger #theoretical

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#assurance #been #never #regards #work

What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it. ↗

— Dexter S. King

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Writing this book was very therapeutic because it helped me face my relationship with my dad. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#book #dad #face #helped #me

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. ↗

— Don King

#evil #favourite #her #hypocrisy #mother

Only in America can a Barack Obama happen. Only in America can a Don King happen. ↗

— Don King

#barack #barack obama #don king #happen #king

The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners. ↗

— Florence King

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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. ↗

— Florence King

#bite #conventions #etiquette #matters #merely

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home. ↗

— Florence King

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