"We hear from sex workers who have through their own volition become media figures, or have despite their own wishes become media figures. Like Ashley DuprÃ©, who has a sex advice column in the New York Post. You get outed and then people expect you to write a memoir because they think, what else are you going to do with your life?"

-- Melissa Gira Grant

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“In the course of interviewing, I've discovered that if you don't give your guest something to react to, they don't react. They simply say what they've been saying every time they've been interviewed. The last thing you want is to have people say to you what they've said to someone else.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 2010.
“I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.”
“In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.”
“Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'”
“My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.”
“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything.”
“No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton”
“We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.”

Source : Catherine McAuley (2017). “A Shining Lamp: The Oral Instructions of Catherine McAuley”, p.8, CUA Press

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