"We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means."

“I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.”

“We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.”

“Something lurked inside the truth.”

“I am withdrawing because I have come to view the part of the IPCC to which my expertise is relevant as having become politicized. In addition, when I have raised my concerns to the IPCC leadership, their response was simply to dismiss my concerns.”

“In adversity be spirited and firm, and with equal prudence lessen your sail when filled with a too fortunate gale of prosperity.”

“I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.”

Source : Interview With Peter Brant II, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2011.

“Working women went through a time when they believed that.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

“There is something about the unexpected that moves us. As if the whole of existence is paid for in some way, except for that one moment, which is free.”

Source : Rose Tremain (1995). “Sacred Country”, p.232, Simon and Schuster