"Also she signed away the right to self-destruct years ago. The fine print on the birth certificate, her friends call it."

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Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.79, Vintage

Jenny Offill

#Self Quotes #Years Quotes #Birth Quotes

“I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.”
“People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm passionate about pleasing people.”

Source : "Michael Mina's magic touch" by Stacy Finz, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2008.
“Don't tell people you are broke. Guilting fans into buying your music never works.”
“It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.”
“When we think about the people with whom we work, people on whom we depend, we can see that without each individual, we are not going to go very far as a group. By ourselves, we suffer serious limitations. Together we can be something wonderful.”
“There are plenty of people who are willing to pay $2.6 million for 30 seconds on the Super Bowl and hundreds of thousands of dollars for 'American Idol.' There will be advertising dollars on the Internet. We're there as well. We win either way.”
“If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.”

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