"I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view. It's informed by our own understanding of spirituality; things that matter, things that are important to us. I write about things that matter for me."

-- Ted Dekker

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Our World Quotes

“Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession had been invented by men, and that men were in control of both our worlds, the one on earth, and the one in heaven. That men force women to sell their bodies at a price, and that the lowest paid body is that of a wife. All women are prostitutes of one kind or another.”

Source : Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “Woman at Point Zero: Second Edition”, p.99, Zed Books
“Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.”

Source : Janwillem van de Wetering (2014). “The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery”, p.142, St. Martin's Griffin
“If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.”
“How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”
“A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.”
“My advice to women directors is just to make the best work possible.”

Source : "‘Addicted to Fresno’ Director Jamie Babbit on Hiding Pregnancies and Embracing Diversity". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. October 1, 2015.
“The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.”

Source : "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.
“True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.”

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