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“Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)”
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“What I'm asserting is that we are looking at bisexuality the wrong way, making the identity entirely dependent on someone other that the bisexual person him- or herself. If I'm dating a man, I'm straight. If I'm dating a woman, I'm a lesbian. But sexuality is not who you sleep with, it's who you are. It doesn't change according to who is standing next to you.”
Source : Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.6, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.”
Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf
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“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.”
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“I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.”
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“Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.”
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“If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.”
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“Where the material ends, art begins.”