"When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?"

-- Susie Orbach

#Beautiful Quotes #Girl Quotes #Growing Up Quotes

“Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?" "Cant help it. It's the company I keep.”
“You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.”
“Thank you. It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things. I'm not allowed to have scissors any more. It's still pretty lengthy, but I've been threatening to shave half of it for the past week and nobody seems to believe me... I do it all myself though because I scream when I'm touched and that scares people.”
“I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.”
“Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.”
“Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?”
“Those who boast about being "brutally honest" are usually more brutal than honest.”
“Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.”

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