"Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way."

-- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#Country Quotes #Character Quotes #People Quotes

“No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.”
“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.”
“While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.”

Source : "A Conversation with Daniel Mason, author of THE PIANO TUNER". Penguin Random House Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.
“Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”
“Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.”

Source : Richard Peck (2000). “A Year Down Yonder”
“...and he crosses the line with the ball almost mesmerically tied to his foot with a piece of string.”
“We know you're stashing him, Cena!”
“The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.”

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