"If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency."

-- Bell Hooks

#Agency Quotes #Self Quotes #Giving Quotes

“One of the things I always underscore when I teach criticism is that young critics, or would be critics, frequently have this illusion that if they write about music they're somehow part of music, or if they write about movies they're part of movies, or of they write about theater they're part of theater, or write about literature. Writing is a part of literature, we belong the species of literature. If you add all the music reviews together that have ever been written, they don't create two notes of music.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.”
“In the European context tax rates are high and government expenditure is focused on current expenditure. A 'good' consolidation is one where taxes are lower and the lower government expenditure is on infrastructures and other investments.”

Source : "Interview with The Wall Street Journal". Interview with Robert Thomson, Matt Karnitschnig, Brian Blackston, www.ecb.europa.eu. February 24, 2012.
“This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.”
“Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.”

Source : "Karrie Webb Spins Cycle of Success". www.insurancejournal.com. August 9, 2004.
“Learn from Saint ThÃ©rÃ¨se to depend on God alone and serve Him with a wholly pure and detached heart. Then, like her, you will be able to say 'I do not regret that I have given myself up to Love'.”
“Many things are good, many are important, but only a few are essential.”
“All nature wears one universal grin.”

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