"It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me."

-- Ellen Page

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“Landscapes have a language of their own, expressing the soul of the things, lofty or humble, which constitute them, from the mighty peaks to the smallest of the tiny flowers hidden in the meadow's grass.”
“I learn more with every job and I'm thankful for where I am”
“I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.”

Source : Sandra Cisneros (2015). “A House of My Own: Stories from My Life”, p.182, Vintage
“The Twelve Chairs is about the same thing. It's all about money or love. We know we need money, we know we have to get money, we know we have to hurt others to get money. But we don't know until maybe it's a little too late in life that love is the most important thing. Love, friendship, affection, bonhomie, whatever. Those are the only things that really count: to love and be loved.”
“Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.”

Source : Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Touchstone
“Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...”
“Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.”
“I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.”

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