"It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost."

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Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#Animal Quotes #Voice Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.”
“Learn to write when you would rather sleep. Learn to exercise this gift of language when no conscious portion of your wits can vibrate anything but worry. Learn to write so, my son, and you can call yourself a writer.”
“A set of Bollywood actresses are coming through Dallas soon in a live tour; I'd pay a lot to see them, but alas, I'm fully booked elsewhere.”
“Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.”
“You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.”
“Gender Benders, Beware,â€Â in which she opined that â€œI donâ€™t have a problem with men disposing of their genitals, but it does not make them women, in the same way that shoving a bit of vacuum hose down your 501s does not make you a man.”
“To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.”
“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”

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