"People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them."

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Source : Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.71, Macmillan

Rachel Cusk

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
“The fact that traditionally 'female' jobs are paid less, that women end up working part-time because they're societally pressured into caring roles, and that having children has a negative impact on women's wages but a positive impact on men's, are all problems that should deeply concern us, not 'explanations' that can be happily accepted.”
“Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.”

Source : "I Am a Bitch!" by Tabatha Coffey, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2012.
“Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.”
“The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.”
“A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.”
“Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game.”
“I didn't have a childhood.”

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