"There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know."

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Marguerite Young

#Women Quotes #Writing Quotes #Names Quotes

“Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity....”
“Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.”

Source : "As always, Julio Iglesias speaks the language … of love". Interview with John Katsilometes, lasvegassun.com. January 13, 2011.
“It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention”
“To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.”
“I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big.”
“Darkness, that here surrounds our purblind understanding, will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.”
“In a way, the worldâˆ’view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”
“If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.”

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