"Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone."

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Catherynne M. Valente

#Hurt Quotes #Xbox Quotes #Past Quotes

“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
“With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.”
“Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.”
“The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.”
“Remember always, everyone has a place of perfect belonging, and if they leave that place without permission, sometimes they must be returned.”
“So take my advice: whatever you do? Donâ€™t blink”
“Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.”

Source : Alice S. Rossi (1973). “The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir”, p.391, UPNE
“Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.”

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