"It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print."

-- Louise Brown

#Girl Quotes #Believe Quotes #Book Quotes

“I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.”
“Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.”
“Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.”
“Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . .”
“I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.”
“As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, Iâ€™ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. Iâ€™m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scaredâ€¦. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I canâ€™t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because thatâ€™s what Iâ€™ve done all my life.”

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