"Excellence has no sex."

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Source : Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris

Eva Hesse

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“My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.”
“The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.”

Source : Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.489
“My dresser and I have the hots for the new rugby ace Danny Cipriani. We have a shrine in my dressing room - press photos of him on the field looking swarthy and fit, and snaps of our boy emerging from Mayfair nightclubs, looking sexy and dishevelled.”
“Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another.”

Source : "The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, vol. 111". Journal by Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, William Empson, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox, p. 494, 1860.
“You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that we have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is vital not only for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself-a point that seems to escape many people.”

Source : "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.
“I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.”
“I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.”
“It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.”

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