Quotes
Authors
Catherine Mayer
"As a young woman working in journalism, I assumed harassment and discrimination came with the territory and that you just had to get on with the job. As I rose to senior positions, it took me awhile to realise that just because I'd survived relatively unscathed didn't mean the younger women joining the profession would do so, and it isn't until you hit a certain age that the reality of ageism - which is much more acute for women - kicks in." --
Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
Catherine Mayer
#Senior Quotes
#Jobs Quotes
#Mean Quotes
“I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.”
“Have you ever had a moment where you finish a piece, and then all of a sudden the piece sort of takes on it's own life beyond you? It doesn't happen every time, but there are some pieces where that happens, and I love that. I feel like that's what I'm seeking nowadays, that moment of transcendence with a piece. Where this thing becomes larger than me as a person. It becomes otherworldly, and then I get separated as maker from it, and then it has it's own life. I love that.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“90? 110? You know. It's a Ferrari, baby - you don't do 50 in a Ferrari.”
“But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.”
Source : "Secrets of the Old One". "Groks Science" with Frank Ling, grokscience.wordpress.com. January 18, 2009.
“The beginnings of all things are small.”
“Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.”
“If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.”
“Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.”