"I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'"

-- Doris Lessing

#Book Quotes #Succeed Quotes #Process Quotes

“[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.”
“Too many Americans have lost faith in our approach to the war on drugs...”
“one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.”
“Higher energy prices act like a tax. They reduce the disposable income people have available for other things after they've paid their energy bills.”
“Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.”

Source : Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”
“Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.”
“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”
“Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.”

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