"I felt very isolated with my identity virtually my entire life, that nobody really got it and that I really didn't have the personal agency to express it, i kind of imagined that maybe at some point (I'd have to) own it publicly and discuss this kind of complexity."

-- Rachel Dolezal

#Life Quotes #Agency Quotes #Identity Quotes

“My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder.”
“There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.”

Source : Interview with Henry Rogers, www.previewonline.org.
“Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.”
“The whole trial seemed surreal.”

Source : "Interview with "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. December 17, 2004.
“Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.”
“... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled”

Source : Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.13, Northwestern University Press
“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

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