"I'm strong and I can do things that scare me. I can drive in the snow even though it terrifies me. I'm doing it all alone, I don't have a boyfriend, it was like, "I can do this.""

-- Lissie

#Strong Quotes #Snow Quotes #Scare Quotes

“If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust--to sing out your song for everyone to hear.”
“We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”
“I don't consider weed to be any worse than having a beer.”
“The reason the world is not seeing Jesus is that Christian people are not filled with Jesus. They are satisfied with attending meetings weekly, reading the Bible occasionally, and praying sometimes. It is an awful thing for me to see people who profess to be Christians lifeless, powerless, and in a place where their lives are so parallel to unbelieversâ€™ lives that it is difficult to tell which place they are in, whether in the flesh or in the Spirit.”
“We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.”
“I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done.”

Source : "Good News, id Tech 5 Is Likely Coming To Linux" by Michael Larabel, www.phoronix.com. September 14, 2009.
“What social media has done - Facebook, Twitter - is show the audience. I don't have an audience. When I make my work, it just goes out into the ether. I have a thick skin and it just brings me down to earth, you know, to realize how out-there and far away and paltry the audience is that gets what I'm saying. It's depressing if I let it get to me. And it's the same with hanging a show, the way it's put up, like, three stories high and you can't read a single word.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.”

Source : "The Women of Hollywood Speak Out" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2015.

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