"What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?"

-- Julie Burchill

#Mirrors Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Sap Quotes

“I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations.”
“Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.”
“Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.”
“I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.”

Source : Elaine Morgan (1973). “The descent of woman”
“So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came.”
“Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.”
“Celebrate the Sacred in the ordinary.”
“My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.”

Source : "Increasing STEM Education for Our Nation’s Women" by Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2014.

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