Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Quotation of the day for December 31, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for December 31, 2013



"I'm glad she didn't want me to take her name."

- Nelson Mandela on Graça Machel's announcement that she would keep her surname after their marriage in 1998. Quoted in "Postscript: Nelson Mandela" by Nadine Gordimer in the Dec. 18 New Yorker.

[http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2013/12/16/131216ta_talk_gordimer?mbid=social_tablet_e]

Submitted by: John Karabaic
Dec. 11, 2013

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