"My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework."

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Sara Paretsky

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“One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks, or the trademark "S" that gave Superman the ability to fly. That ability derived from the effects of the rays of our yellow sun on Superman's alien anatomy, which had evolved under the red sun of Krypton. And yet you had only to tie a towel around your shoulders to feel the strange vibratory pulse of flight stirring in the red sun of your heart.”
“Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret. We are defined by the objects of our regret.”
“Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.”
“You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.”
“The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork.”

Source : "Arcade Fire". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 4, 2010.
“Please, Katsa," he finally said. "At least talk to me". She swung around to face him. "What it there to talk about? You know how I feel, and what I think about it." "And what I feel? Doesn't it matter?”
“The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.”

Source : "Leader of Muslim Brotherhood Mahdi 'Akef: Arab and Islamic Countries Should Obtain Nuclear Technology 'For Military Purposes'". MemriTV, June 2006.
“What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.”

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