"Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Olympia Dukakis

#Mother Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Dna Quotes

“If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational, you set up the possibility of a discourse.”

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“Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good.”
“The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.”
“Every one turns his dreams into realities as far as he can; man is cold as ice to the truth, hot as fire to falsehood.”
“The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.”
“What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream”
“There has to be news at a place called Fox News,”

Source : "Shep Smith In Esquire : “I Don’t Care What Sean Hannity Thinks” By Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2009.
“Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.”

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