"Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations."

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Source : Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

Maggie Scarf

#Self Quotes #Doe Quotes #Want Quotes

“I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters is that it's truthful. That is not always the same thing. You really want to convey the spirit of the enterprise rather than ticking every single factual box.”
“It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be - for what sake? Not health, not survival, no enjoyment of life but just so you could look pretty. I'm constantly telling girls all the time, 'Everything's airbrushed, everything's retouched. None of us look like that.”
“My advice to you all out there is â€œREAD LIQUID MILLIONAIRE NOW!”
“Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.”
“Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America.”
“It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.”
“Staying healthy and consistent is paramount.”
“The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.”

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