"War is what happens when language fails."

-- Margaret Atwood

#War Quotes #Empowering Quotes #Language Quotes

“I never wanted to be famous or get any sort of recognition for my person or my personality; it has always been for my work. There's something that bothers me intrinsically about social media, but it's just expected of you now. It's almost part of your contract. But that's not what I'm selling. I don't want to sell anything.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
“Our ability to adapt and therefore to accept everything is one of our greatest dangers. Creatures that are completely flexible, changeable, can have no fixed morality.”

Source : Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Many problems that confront us today are created by man, whether they are violent conflicts, destruction of the environment, poverty or hunger. These problems can be resolved thanks to human efforts by understanding that we are brother and sister and by developing this sense of closeness. We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share.”
“Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.”
“This is a movement to say we're more than just our dresses. ... It's hard being a woman in Hollywood or any industry.”
“From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.”
“That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I spent many years struggling to get work, and there are a lot of people more talented than myself who got jobs before me. And I finally, after years and years and years, got lucky.”

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