"I have made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes"

-- Tenzin Palmo

#Enlightenment Quotes #Matter Quotes #Female Quotes

“You will always have value and nothing can change that.”

Source : "Elizabeth Smart speaks on human trafficking". www.csmonitor.com. May 4, 2013.
“Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.”
“Space travel is a dream for many men and women. I think my trip will be perceived differently by different genders because for women, a lot of time, not only space travel, it's not accessible to everyone, but is even less accessible to women, there are a lot more barriers for them especially if they live in countries where things like space travel, engineering, any science and technology-related field would be considered a more male-dominated field. And so I want to show them that there is nothing preventing woman, or making them less qualified to be involved in any of these fields.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.”
“Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.”
“...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.”
“There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.”
“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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