"I wanted to be my own heroine."

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Source : Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.86, A&C Black

Jesmyn Ward

#Heroines Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.”
“But it's cool working with female directors because I'm a girl, so you do relate to them more. You can talk to them about other stuff like clothes and all that.”
“Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 71), 2006.
“I'm proud to call myself a feminist and am proud to say I have two young boys who are self-proclaimed feminists as well.”
“Happiness isnâ€™t some elusive treasure we chase after. Itâ€™s a state of being we need to PRACTICE.”
“One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make 25 percent on their money every year, and if they go down to 22 percent, they start laying people off.”

Source : Pat Oliphant, Harry L. Katz, Sara Day, Library of Congress (1998). “Oliphant's Anthem”, p.50, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this anguish of shadows, this passion over death and light.”
“Hey! Sorry, lady, but nobody's staking anybody at this party! I hung a disco ball for this.”

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