"Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity."

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Cynthia Heimel

#Skins Quotes #Body Quotes #Arms Quotes

“Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.”
“Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press
“Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a personâ€™s bookcase and their grocery cart, sheâ€™d pretty much know who they were.”

Source : Louise Penny (2015). “The Chief Inspector Gamache Series”, p.175, Macmillan
“The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.”
“Self-deport? What the heck does that mean? I have no doubt Hispanics have been alienated during this campaign. But now there's an opportunity for Gov. Romney to have a sincere conversation about what we can do and why. I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform. Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.”

Source : "New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez Assails Romney's Immigration Views" by Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2012.
“I hope I'm always convincing when I act!”
“It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.”

Source : Mike Lupica (2007). “Heat”, p.129, Penguin
“Fear God and you need not fear anyone else.”

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