Kameron Hurley famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What weâ€™re capable of. When we go out looking for stories we are, I think, in many ways going in search of ourselves, trying to find understanding of our lives, and the people around us. Stories, and language tell us whatâ€™s important.
-- Kameron Hurley

#Thinking #People #Understanding
Letâ€™s just put it this way: if you think thereâ€™s a thing â€“ anything â€“ women didnâ€™t do in the past, youâ€™re wrong.
-- Kameron Hurley

#Past #Thinking #Way
Life was what you did with what was done to you.
-- Kameron Hurley

#Done
Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.
-- Kameron Hurley

#War #Men #Sea
It was strange how you didnâ€™t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.
-- Kameron Hurley

#Strange #Lost #Realising
We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.
-- Kameron Hurley

#Stories #Celebration
Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re wrong.
-- Kameron Hurley

#Past #Thinking #Way
It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.
-- Kameron Hurley

#Strange #Lost #Realising

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.
Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."

Kameron Hurley famous quotes

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