"Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life, confirmed desires the reader had hardly acknowledge-desires that now seem possible. Women catch courage from the women whose lives and writings they read, and women call the bearer of that courage friend. [p. 138]"

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Believe Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I had so many secrets and so much social repression throughout my life. I guess I'm just a shy person and feel like my true self is unacceptable to most people.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.”
“Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.”

Source : James Sheridan Knowles (1823). “Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy, in Five Acts”, p.23
“Dare to dream... something will always come of it”
“Work with your mind; don't let your mind work over you.”
“I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.”

Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
“A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble”
“My brain is very simple. Like when you break everything down. I see things in a simple way. And that simplicity for some reason becomes funny to other people because they don't look at it that way.”

Source : Source: www.nj.com

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