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.. a few memorable quotes

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
~ Louisa May Alcott

“Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.”
~ Susan B. Anthony

“The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”
~ Susan B. Anthony

“We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.”
~ Susan B. Anthony, Declaration of Rights for Women, July 1876

“There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”
~ Susan B. Anthony

“In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.”
~ Nancy Astor
(British Politician)

“For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.”
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
(The first woman in the U.S. to become a physician)

“The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.”
~ Sandra Day O’Connor

“We’ve chosen the path to equality, don’t let them turn us around.”
~ Geraldine Ferraro
(The first woman to be nominated as Vice President of the United States)

“You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.”
~ Jane Fonda

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
~ Margaret Fuller

“My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.”
~Mother Jones

“Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.”
~ Janis Joplin

“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
~ Helen Keller

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.”
~ Margaret Mead

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
~ Margaret Mead

“I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.”
~ Golda Meir

“Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.”
~ Constance Baker Motley
(First Black Woman in the U.S. to become a Federal Judge)

“I think the key is for women not to set any limits.”
~ Martina Navratilova

“People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.”
~ Princess Diana

“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“I think it’s very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we’re seeing what’s happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It’s not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out.”
~ Mary Steenburgen

“In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she’s a feminist or a masochist.”
~ Gloria Steinem

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”
~ Gloria Steinem

“I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators—they fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What’s to be ashamed of?”
~ Barbra Streisand

“We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.”
~ Rosalyn Sussman
(Nobel Prize-winning medical physicist)

“You can tell how high a society is by how much of its garbage is recycled.”
~ Dhyani Ywahoo
(Native American)

“It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower is to bloom.”
~ Alice Walker

“I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”
~ Martha Washington

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
~ Virginia Woolf
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By Robin Hill

A supply list for the beginner in scrapbooking is essential for anyone starting this consuming hobby. Without a list to guide you, you will jump from shop to shop, website to website and buy anything that takes your fancy. Before you know it, you’ll have spent more than you intended, and purchased items you don’t know what to do with. So, let’s start off with our list and add just a small amount of detail to ensure you understand what you’re intending to purchase.

Basic Supply List

1. Scrapbook Album
2. Adhesives
3. Scissors
4. Photo / newspaper clipping
5. Pen

The Scrapbook Album
The scrapbooking album is used to present in a special way all those things that are meaningful to you. There are many different colors, sizes and designs of albums. The most important thing you need to know about an album is whether it is acid and lignin free. It must be both of these to be suitable for scrapbooking.

Cost is another aspect of the album and it can vary widely. Pick an album that you feel will suit your needs. To start off your hobby choose a smaller size album that is easier to fill. A popular size is 8 1/2×11. Move onto a larger size when you gain more confidence.

Adhesives
Be very careful when choosing adhesives as the wrong type will ruin a photo and possibly other sensitive items you have on your page. Always choose a photo-safe adhesive. Having said that you can buy this type of adhesive in the form of glue sticks, glue dots and double sided tape to name a few.

Scissors
The truly experienced scrapper, tends to have some pretty fancy gear including scissors with a patterned cutting edge. You don’t need these to start off with (except if you really want them of course). A nice sharp quality pair of plain scissors will suffice.

Most scrappers also have a cutter enabling you to slice off paper etc. with a straight edge. This is not essential when you are learning as it is an additional cost, but if you have difficulty maintaining straight lines this item will solve your problem.

Photos and Clippings
These are the central items that you will put into your scrap book. These provide the subject and hence the theme for your page, and their selection will determine what your scrapbook is all about.

Choose the best quality photos or clippings, with good color that are sharply focused. If you use poor quality or out of focus photos or clippings, it will downgrade the quality of your work.

Pen
This is something that is easy to overlook. Beginner scrapbookers tend to focus so much on what they need to put into their album that they tend to forget that the album is incomplete without some sort of detail describing what the page is all about.

This is called journaling and you can not use any old pen, it has to be one that does not bleed (leak out into the paper away from your writing). A good first choice is a pigma pen, and the best color is black.

In Closing
I hope this list has provided you with the guidance you need to make informed decisions about what you will purchase when you do select your first scrapbooking supplies.
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Oh, Paddy, dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round?
The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground!
No more St. Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen,
For there’s a cruel law agin’ the Wearin’ o’ the green.
~Author Unknown


St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic. ~Adrienne Cook


You’ve heard I suppose, long ago,
How the snakes, in a manner most antic
He marched to the County Mayo,
And trundled them into th’ Atlantic
~Author Unknown


When law can stop the blades of grass from growin’ as they grow,
An’ when the leaves in summer time their color dare not show,
Then I will change the color, too, I wear in my caubeen;
But till that day, plaise God, I’ll stick to the Wearin’ o’ the Green.


If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? ~Stanislaw J. Lec


Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick’s Day consists of the night of the 17th of March flavored strongly with the morning of the 18th. ~Author Unknown


May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
~Irish Blessing


May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
~Irish Blessing


Saint Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth
Drove all the snakes from Ireland, here’s a drink to his health!
But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick, and see them snakes again!
~Author Unknown


Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck. ~Author Unknown


A best friend is like a four leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. ~Author Unknown


Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown
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