"My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

#Self Quotes #Talent Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably ... We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.”

Source : "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.
“Maybe he just looks good compared to the bores he's running against.”
“The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of music....The point is not to hold up Beethoven as exceptionally monstrous. The Ninth Symphony is probably our most compelling articulation in music of the contradictory impulses that have organized patriarchal culture since the Enlightenment. Moreover, within the parameters of his own musical compositions, he may be heard as enacting a critique of narrative obligations that is...devestating.”
“There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.”
“I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.”
“A shoe that fits one person pinches another.”
“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.”
“Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.”

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