"she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant"

-- Dorothy Allison

#Balance Quotes #Friendly Quotes #Tongue Quotes

“Hiroshimaâ€, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: â€œBut in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day Iâ€™ll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed”
“I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.”
“Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.”
“The whole world population rests on women. You have to start with the woman. And the woman will make her own decisions. If you want to have five or ten children, fine. You can have big families or small families, but you have the family you feel you can afford or feed. In China the one - child policy is already finished - on its way out because the economic conditions end up producing the same effect. If people want an expensive flat in a place like Shanghai, you can't have more than one child or two.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Crackdowns on Internet content make clear the need for an anonymized Web. Now, someone just needs to implement it.”

Source : "Anonymizing the Web" by Jamais Cascio, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.
“Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.”
“I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.”
“There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.”

Source : Ron Hall, Denver Moore (2008). “Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together”, p.169, Thomas Nelson Inc

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