"And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care."

-- Russell Banks

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Care Quotes

“By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"”
“I think there's a certain limit to the number of times you can raise hairs on the back of peoples' heads before it gets kind of saccharin.”
“Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”

Source : "Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century)". Book by Donna J. Haraway (pp. 149-181), 1991.
“People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber, tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive. According to this philosophy, the basic law by which man must live, in spite of his surface veneer of civilization, is the law of the jungle. The "fittest" are those who can bring to the struggle superior force, superior cunning, and superior ruthlessness.”
“Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right here in this apartment. First you smash your leg. Then you get to lookin' out the window. See things you shouldn't see. Trouble. I can see you in court now, surrounded by a bunch of lawyers in double-breasted suits. You're pleading: 'Judge, it was only a little bit of innocent fun. I love my neighbors like a father.' And the Judge says, 'Well, congratulations, you've just given birth to three years in. . . .'”

Source : "Fictional character: Stella". "Rear Window", 1954.
“The more we complain, the more unhappy we get”
“Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.”

Source : Archibald MacLeish (1968). “A continuing journey”
“Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.”

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