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Sheila Ballantyne
"There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls."
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Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Imaginary crimes”, Penguin Group USA
Sheila Ballantyne
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“Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.”
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“Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.”
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“What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.”
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“I try to be like a forest: revitalizing and constantly growing.”
Source : Interview with Baird Jones in New York Post, December 11, 1999.
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“Yoga is the only exercise in the world you can do at any age. There is always some posture that will improve your health, mind and soul.”
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“All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.”
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“The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.”
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“I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is a male-dominated society based on the oppression of women. I am merely pointing out in what ways it is better for women. [¶] Perhaps someday a choice between forms of injustice will not be necessary.”
Source : "Women and Madness". Book by Phyllis Chesler, 2005.