Sally Miller Gearhart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
People who hold important positions in society are commonly labelled "somebodies," and their inverse "nobodies"-both of which are, of course, nonsensical descriptors, for we are all, by necessity, individuals with distinct identities and comparable claims on existence. Such words are nevertheless an apt vehicle for conveying the disparate treatment accorded to different groups. Those without status are all but invisible: they are treated brusquely by others, their complexities trampled upon and their singularities ignored.
My academic identity is that of a folklorist, and for many years I have taught only folklore courses.
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
I was more excited than scared, at the opportunity to work in an English movie.
Well, I get excited about music.
So we can be filled with holes and loss and wide expanses of unhealed geography - and we can also be excited by life and in love and content at the exact same moment.
I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.
[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.
I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.

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