Victoria’s Read

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman and when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
Enid Bagnold- English Writer, 1889-1981

Happy Fathers Day, Dad. I love you lots.

Grandmothers should be ruling the world. They see the future in a way others do not. As the world of the flesh, decays,  the life of the spirit, flowers. Grandmothers see a field of wildly blooming exquisite and riotous flowers.

Joy  Kogawa. author and ethnic activist. Order of Canada

I hope people will finally come to realize that there is only one “race” – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

Margaret Atwood - Canadian author

I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

Nellie McClung (1873-1951)

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.”

I live …
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance
And the good that I can do.

A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

“Fear stops a lot of people. Fear of failure, of the unknown, of risk. And it masks itself as procrastination.”
Lisa Anderson

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” 

Harriet Tubman. American escaped slave, Civil War Soldier and Abolitionist, 1820-1913

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”