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marigolds QUOTES

marigolds QUOTES

1 " She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: " The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless "

2 " In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic of the secret garden is that it exists in our imagination. There are no limits, no borderlines. The secret garden leads to the marigolds of Mogadishu and the magnolias of Kingston and when the heat turns us sticky and sweet and unwilling to be claimed by defeat we own the night. We own our bodies. We own our lives. "

― Diriye Osman , Fairytales for Lost Children

3 " ...we've told men for so long that we're equal, we can open our own doors, carry our own bags, pay our own way, that now they're afraid to offer in case we accuse them of sex discrimination. If you were a man would you buy a woman underwear? I wouldn't dare. What if she throws it back in your face and calls you a sexist pig? So they've tried to turn into new men, but that's no good either, because now we're telling them to be masculine. We don't just want them in a pair of Marigolds cleaning the oven, that's not good enough. We want them to take control, to whisk us off hotels, buy us dinner, and make mad passionate love to us all night. We want it all ways. We want them heroes and handy with the vacuum. No wonder the poor guys are confused "

― Alexandra Potter , Calling Romeo

4 " Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes they turn Like marigolds toward the sunny side. "