quotes about Lena Duchannes

“I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has - to be rejoined with the one somehow, to become a part of the universe. Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.”

“Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.”

“My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.”

Source : "Sen. Blanche Lambert Lincoln's closed-door impeachment statement". www.cnn.com. February 12, 1999.

“[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.”

“Today, you have 100% of your life left.”

“You don't have to do all that shakin' and bakin' to get to the goal and make a shot.”

“The secret art of inviting blessings.  The spiritual medicine of all diseases. Morning and night, join your hands in prayer and repeat these words out loud and in your heart for the improvement of body and mind.”

“Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”

“In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.”

“Women don't take care of themselves because they take care of everybody else.”