"Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath."

-- Gail Sheehy

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“All businesses, including gasoline stations and restaurants, should close ever Sunday... by force of legislative fiat through the duly elected officials of the people.”
“If you treat people like adults they will act like adults, but if you treat them like children they will act like children.”
“Why do dying people never shed tears?”

Source : Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates
“We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.”
“I think every leader has an obligation - the absolute obligation - to treat everyone fairly. But they also have the obligation to treat everyone differently. Because people aren't all the same, and the last thing you ever want to do, in my opinion, is let the best in your organization be treated like the worst in your organization. It does nothing for your future.”
“I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.”
“I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality.”
“I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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