"I think for a woman, getting older can help, through personal experience, although of course older women are then rendered invisible in our society, another existential crisis."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Kate Zambreno

#Thinking Quotes #Getting Older Quotes #Our Society Quotes

“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”

Source : The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 1989.
“It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.”
“I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.”
“Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.”

Source : Salvation Army, William Booth (1907). “Selected Papers on the Social Work of the Salvation Army”
“Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that”
“Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”
“That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.”

Source : Joe Abercrombie (2015). “The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country”, p.1336, Hachette UK
“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”

Source : Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.131, Broadway Books

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