"She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her."

-- D. H. Lawrence

“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.”
“A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence."”
“I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.”
“Let us be servants in order to be leaders.”
“I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.”
“To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.”
“Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.”

Source : "'Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant': Marcia Cross on how she doesn't want to be a 'poster-girl' for older mothers" by Maysa Rawi, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 31, 2012.
“Looking at the huge number of transgender women of color who have been murdered since the beginning of the year - that we know of - the number has reached seven or eight at this point, maybe even nine, since the start of 2015. The number of those women involved in sex work is not a piece that gets lifted up in news reports. Sometimes people want to bury that, because they don't want to say anything that might make it seem as though those women were asking for it. We're still living with the idea that sex work somehow marks people as acceptable targets for violence.”

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