"I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor."

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Source : Nina Bawden (2011). “Dear Austen”, p.19, Hachette UK

Nina Bawden

#Survivor Quotes #Victim Quotes #Angry Quotes

“The nice sense of measure is certainly not one of Nature's gifts to her English children ... we have all of us yielded to infatuation at some moment of our lives.”
“One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.”
“Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me.”

Source : FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 09, 2012
“Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.”
“The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.”

Source : Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.107
“I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came.”

Source : "Song: 'Voodoo'". 1999.
“I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.”
“I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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