"There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or a common secret. By allowing those boundaries to be porous, certain forms of oppression may be lifted."

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Charlotte Cotton

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“I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.”
“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”

Source : "Unterweysung der Messung (A Course on the Art of Measurement)". Book by Albrecht Durer, 1525.
“I'm not ashamed of showing my curves to the world. Bodies are beautiful when they're full and healthy and fit. I've always had curves and I'll always be proud of them.”
“I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.”
“I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.”
“Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.”
“Well, I was coming off of being on 'Law & Order,' and I was a little worried that it might be the end of my career - I've never been one of those actors with a lot of confidence that the next good job will come along.”
“Is it ever really a waste of time to love someone, truly and deeply, with everything you have?”

Source : Rhoda Janzen (2011). “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home”, p.217, Atlantic Books Ltd

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