Gwen Bristow (September 16, 1903 in Marion, South Carolina – August 17, 1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American author and journalist. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1989.
uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. . . . they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.
being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.
We can get the new world we want, if we want it enough to abandon our prejudices, every day, everywhere. We can build this world if we practice now what we said we were fighting for.
We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.
The rich and powerful want to believe in their right to be rich and powerful, so they justify it by saying they are inherently superior to the poor and lowly.
Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.
No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.
You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.
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