"If you're a woman musician, that is your qualifier. I've had people come up to me and say, "You're good for a girl." My only issue is, when that stereotype and stigma already exists, sometimes it's perpetuated by people who may not really play guitar. You somehow need to transcend that division of gender."

-- Thao Nguyen

#Girl Quotes #People Quotes #Musician Quotes

“The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.”
“People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.”
“Hit the club, and I'm mad cause they wont let us in. Now I'm about to go bad like drunk mexicans.”
“Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there is a 50% chance that your house would burn down in the next few years unless you replace all the wiring. The job will cost $20,000... so you get an independent assessment. The next engineer agrees with the first warning. You can either continue to shop for additional evaluations until you find the one engineer in 1,000 that is willing to give you the answer you want, "Your family is not in danger" or you can change the wiring.”
“Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple”
“It doesn't take much to produce a good merchant of cash-and-carry love: just courage, an infinite capacity for perpetual suspicion, stamina on a 24-hour-a-day basis, the deathless conviction that the customer is always wrong, a fair knowledge of first and second aid, do-it-yourself gynecology, judo - and a tremendous sense of humor.”
“Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, thereâ€™s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.”
“My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.145, Crown

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