My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

~Indira Gandhi

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

~Gloria Steinem

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

~Gloria Steinem

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
~Gloria Steinem

I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

~Alice Paul

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

~Susan B. Anthony

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

~Susan B. Anthony

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

~Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

~Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

~Winston Churchill

The length of our life is less important than its depth.

~Mary David Fisher

There will come a time when the Earth grows sick and when it does a tribe will gather from all the cultures of the World who believe in deed and not words. They will work to heal it.. they will be known as the "Warriors of the Rainbow."

~Cree Indian Proverb

"ooh no, don't you put me in that box... you know what you can do with those locks... bet your life I'll come crawling out again... you'll have to deal with me then... you'll hear me in the wind..."

~Kristin Hersh

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."

~ Potter Stewart

"The idea that the different parts of the natural world are connected through an intricate system of checks and balances which we disturb at our peril is all too easily dismissed as no longer relevant."

~Prince Charles

What is a feminist? A feminist is what I am called when I question being treated like a doormat.

~Unknown

A to Z: 26 Reasons to Nurse Your Baby
From: LEAVEN, Vol. 33 No. 4, August-September 1997, p. 90

Amenorrhea
Bonding
Colostrum... the perfect first food
Decreased risk of breast cancer
Easy baby care
Few allergies
Good for the whole family
Human milk is specially designed for human babies
Immunities
Jaw development
Kids get lots of attention when the new baby is breastfed
Laundry is a breeze
Mental development
Natural
Oxytocin and prolactin
Protection against many diseases
Quick weight loss for mother
Rest
Saves money
Traveling is easy
Understanding the baby's needs
Vitamins and minerals
Working goes smoothly when the nursing relationship is maintained
eXactly what baby needs
You get to take care of your baby
Zero waste
Only the Best Is Good Enough - Breastfeed! A to Z: 26 Reasons to Nurse Your Baby
From: LEAVEN, Vol. 33 No. 4, August-September 1997, p. 90
Amenorrhea
Bonding
Colostrum... the perfect first food
Decreased risk of breast cancer
Easy baby care
Few allergies
Good for the whole family
Human milk is specially designed for human babies
Immunities
Jaw development
Kids get lots of attention when the new baby is breastfed
Laundry is a breeze
Mental development
Natural
Oxytocin and prolactin
Protection against many diseases
Quick weight loss for mother
Rest
Saves money
Traveling is easy
Understanding the baby's needs
Vitamins and minerals
Working goes smoothly when the nursing relationship is maintained
eXactly what baby needs
You get to take care of your baby
Zero waste

Only the Best Is Good Enough - Breastfeed!

"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."

~Lily Tomlin

In matter of principal, stand like a rock. In mater of taste, swim with the current.
~Thomas Jefferson

Only those who do nothing make no mistakes.

~M Forbes

To acquire knowledge, one must study, but to acquire wisdom one must observe.

~Aristotle

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

~Unknown

Oh I just LOVE this one, specially when my ever trusty computer decides to "throw toys", whatever did we do before computers. I suspect life was a lot simpler...

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

~Vincent Van Gogh

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

~T.S. Eliot

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

~Winston Churchill

"Children will do to the world what is done to them."

~ Unknown

Children need Models rather than critics.

~J Joubert

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

~Indira Gandhi

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

~Upton Sinclair

A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker, a raving lunatic.

~Dresden James

"Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away."

~George Bernard Shaw

Possibly a commentary on modern medicine!?

"Spoiling is what happens when you neglect a piece of fruit in the back of a refigerator. Love and respect is what happens when you respond to your child's needs."
~Dr Sears

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
~ Winston Churchill

Cree Indian Prophecy

Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
- Cree Indian Prophecy

One of my all time favourites, if we would all just listen to this - then the world would be a better place!!

Editors' Intro

Here I go starting another new blog, as if I don't have enough to keep me busy already. My other blog is Natural Living Family, it is a collection of my random mumblings, with some great recipes and homeschool resources.
Here I will be posting regular quotes, by famous and not so famous people, I have a large collection of these. I have collected over the years and they are just sitting on my computer, so I thought I'd share them. Many are inspirational, some are sad, but all have touched me in one way or another.