"Global is a unifying bond for people. Once they get outside their own heads and their own communities and see themselves in a broader framework, it really changes their sense of what they can get done. It all adds up for us."

-- Kathy Calvin

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“He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.”
“Collective solutions to individual problems is very seductive. It's how Obama gets elected, by the way.”
“Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.”
“One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The dissent industry is largely a product of the Internet revolution. Inexpensive, borderless, real-time networking provides advocacy non-governmental organizations [NGOs] with economies of scale and also of scope by linking widely disparate groups with one common theme.”
“You know, I've had Botox. The woman who does it is very good, obviously. Very conservative.”
“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”
“My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.”
“Like every girl, I only need to look up and a little to the right of me to see the hysteria that belongs to me, the one that hangs om a hook like an empty jacket and flutters with disappointment that I cannot wear her all the time. I call her my hysteric, and this personal hysteric of mine is designer made (though I'm not sure who made her), flattering and comfortable, attractive even, if you're around people who like that sort of thing. She is not anyone, my hysteric; she is blank, electricity dancing around a filament, singing to kill.”

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Opposite House”, p.29, A&C Black

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