"Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late."

-- Fay Weldon

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“The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.”
“All originality and no plagiarism makes for dull preaching.”
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”
“And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.”
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.479, A&C Black
“Cities are made for enemies to destroy.”
“Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.”
“The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.”

Source : Ina May Gaskin (2011). “Birth Matters: How What We Don't Know About Nature, Bodies, and Surgery Can Hurt Us”, p.6, Seven Stories Press

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