"I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?"

-- Erin Gruwell

#Growing Up Quotes #Educational Quotes #Kids Quotes

“Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.”
“Life is the best and only timekeeper.”
“I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.”
“I decided early in graduate school that I needed to do something about my moods. It quickly came down to a choice between seeing a psychiatrist or buying a horse. Since almost everyone I knew was seeing a psychiatrist, and since I had an absolute belief that I should be able to handle my own problems, I naturally bought a horse.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.39, Pan Macmillan
“Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?”
“The rhythm of walking generates a kind of rhythm of thinking, and the passage through a landscape echoes or stimulates the passage through a series of thoughts. The creates an odd consonance between internal and external passage, one that suggests that the mind is also a landscape of sorts and that walking is one way to traverse it. A new thought often seems like a feature of the landscape that was there all along, as though thinking were traveling rather than making.”

Source : Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.11, Penguin
“Fear and anxiety were exploited by zealots and fools.”
“I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.”

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