"Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote Midwestern campuses."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

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“Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.”
“I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.”
“Just because people want to eat the burger doesn't mean they want to meet the cow.”
“The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.”
“If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.”
“It's not the child's responsibility to teach the parent who they are. It's the parent's responsibility to learn who the child is.”

Source : Tig Notaro (2016). “I'm Just a Person: My year of death, cancer and epiphany”, p.184, Pan Macmillan
“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
“I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.”

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