"I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to be gendered. The idea that some subjects are male and some are female is just preposterous to me. It's reductive and nonsensical, to separate writers and subjects and plots along gender lines. It's meaningless."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#People Quotes #Female Quotes #Literature Quotes

“All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.”
“As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.”
“I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.”
“Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.”

Source : "World mourns attack victims", www.cnn.com. September 12, 2001.
“There are only four or five real events that we have that draw that many people into town each year. We should have at least 12; and once we have 12, we can have 24.”
“Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
“Weapons are less harmful than words.”

Source : "The Reformist as Pacifist". Interview with Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. May 16, 2013.
“About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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