"Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind and a body. To say there's no proof my body exists would be arty and specious and if my mind is more ephemeral, less provable, the solution of being a writer with solid (touchable, tearable, burnable) books is as close as anyone has come to a perfect answer."

-- Judith Perelman Rossner

#Book Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Mind Quotes

“This thing I am feeling, Iâ€™m almost certain, is the closest Iâ€™ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.”
“If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?”
“When I've lost my way or when I am confused about a path to take, I remember that most answers I need I already possess - deep inside. I am naturally creative, resourceful and whole. If I consult my invisible compass, I'll know what to do.”
“That soul that can reflect upon itself, consider itself, is more than so.”
“In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.”
“As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of apartheid everywhere around me.”

Source : Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.
“The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.”
“You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.”

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