"I do think that memoirs by women are reviewed differently and considered somewhat outside of the canon."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Kate Zambreno

#Thinking Quotes #Canon Quotes #Memoir Quotes

“There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.”
“The struggle against the Houthis inside Yemen is fierce. For years, powerful Yemeni tribes received money from Saudi Arabia. Now the Saudis back the Sunni tribes opposed to the Houthis with cash and arms. And then there is al-Qaida.”
“... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1912). “Buttered side down: stories”
“You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.”
“Brokeback Mountain' just blew me away. I'll always remember talking to Heath Ledger just after he finished that movie and he was going on about working with Ang and how incredible he was.”
“Obesity affects every aspect of a peoples lives, from health to relationships.”

Source : "Factory meat, cruel and bad for us" by Jane Velez-Mitchell, www.cnn.com. March 15, 2014.
“Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of Godâ€™s holiness and our sinfulness.”

Source : C.J. Mahaney (2008). “Humility: True Greatness”, p.17, Multnomah
“Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.”

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