"I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me."

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Source : Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.9, Open Road Media

Jane Rule

#Boys Quotes #Feminist Quotes #Grace Quotes

“The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is lifeâ€¦”
“I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.”
“As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.12, iUniverse
“A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.”
“As for disciplineâ€”it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.”
“We[with Jordan Peele] wanted to do something with [Barack] Obama because we actually felt that Obama was kind of responsible for us even getting a show in the first place because there's this biracial person who might, you know, have to ride the divide between two different races.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
“Thou shalt not take anything on faith”

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