"Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head."

-- Gregory Maguire

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“I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway”
“Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.”

Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.61, Harvard University Press
“If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.”
“Art has to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchâ€”the wheel, New York, wars and so onâ€”whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than manâ€”for precisely the same reasons.”

Source : Douglas Adams (2017). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts”, p.102, Pan Macmillan
“I can't complain about the roles that have come my way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.”
“I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.”

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