"Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public"

-- Paulo Coelho

#Writing Quotes #Naked Quotes #Form Quotes

“If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one...”
“I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.”
“Swimming Pool was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.”
“We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.”
“There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.”
“Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.”
“Wood may remain twenty years in the water, but it is still not a fish.”

Source : Jane Yolen (2016). “Sister Light, Sister Dark”, p.15, Open Road Media
“Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only when the people - women, men, young people, children - have the ability to change the system of industrial capitalism that has oppressed them since the earliest days of slavery: a system based on class division, patriarchy, and military might, a hierarchical system that subjugates people merely because they are born poor, or female, or dark-skinned.”

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