"I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with."

-- Geraldine Brooks

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“Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.”

Source : "The Promise of Africa’s Women" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2013.
“I don't see what could be better to play a game and get paid for it.”
“Our society must move from ego-system to eco-system economics. This requires that we shift from ego-system silos to eco-system awareness that considers others and includes the whole.”
“I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.”
“Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.”
“I think everything obviously comes from experience of some kind. It's more about if you closely adhere to that experience or if you extrapolate from it.”

Source : "Coup De Main x NZ On Air | The Veils". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.
“I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Now, in this town, you have to putter over a thing, even the slightest, a month. The powers that evolved the cabbage apple-pie in the morning, and executed it in the evening, are here unknown quantities.”

Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”

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