"Barbie's one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race."

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Source : Connie Willis (1997). “Bellwether”, Spectra

Connie Willis

#Race Quotes #Barbie Quotes #Fads Quotes

“Achievement brings its own anticlimax.”
“Everything we run away from has power over us;everything we go through,we conquer.”
“Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.”
“Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.”
“You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!”
“And then I am going to rattle the stars.”
“That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.”

Source : "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.
“New York is the great stone desert.”

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