"Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?"

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Girl Quotes #Feet Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another career; but now I have again the possibility of maintaining the passion of my early youth days.”
“I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.”
“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”
“How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.”

Source : Margaret Drabble (2013). “The Middle Ground”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you see a horse thatâ€™s troubled, you sort of feel sorry for them, yet that doesnâ€™t mean that you wouldnâ€™t still ask the horse to behave and find a way to fit in and respond to you as well.”
“Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.”
“The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.”

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