"I am afraid of getting older â€¦ I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayâ€”spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be freeâ€¦. I want, I want to think, to be omniscientâ€¦. I think I would like to call myself â€˜The girl who wanted to be God."

-- Sylvia Plath

#Girl Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Cooking Quotes

“A statue stands in a shaded place An angel girl with an upturned face A name is written on a polished rock A broken heart that the world forgot”

Source : Song: Concrete Angel
“The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.”

Source : Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam
“This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.”
“Here at the sea---especially at the sea---I could hear my sisterâ€™s voice in the waves: â€œKira-kira! Kira-kira!”

Source : Cynthia Kadohata (2008). “Kira-Kira”, p.244, Simon and Schuster
“Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”
“In Britain, class is a neurosis. You judge people from the moment they open their mouth and start speaking: what their accent represents in terms of where they were educated, what part of the country they're from, what kind of class background they have.”

Source : "Dan Fox and the Virtues of Pretension". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 5, 2016.
“All cats are grey in the dark.”

Source : Thomas Lodge, Donald Beecher, Henry D. Janzen, Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (2005). “A Margarite of America (1596)”, p.131, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
“I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.”

Source : "Lou Gehrig ‘luckiest man’ speech full text". www.washingtontimes.com. July 3, 2014.

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