"[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least - call it a mechanospiritual sense - we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us."

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Source : Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Natalie Angier

#Women Quotes #Eggs Quotes #Extinction Quotes

“Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. Itâ€™s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . Itâ€™s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some donâ€™t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some donâ€™t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and youâ€™ll never get to read the same book twice.”
“Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.”
“A standing army is a standing menace to liberty.”

Source : Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.98, SUNY Press
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“I learn more about how to run a set teaching six-year-olds. You go into a classroom as a teacher, and the most important work you do is create an infrastructure and an environment that's safe, in which children will feel able and free to take risk. Working with actors, you have to establish the same thing. Teaching a class is not so different than mounting a production.”
“People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 05, 2013
“This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.”
“If I had it to do all over again . . . I wouldn't change a thing.'. . . the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.”

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