"People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush."

-- Li-Young Lee

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Burning Quotes

“Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. Sheâ€™d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.”
“Love is contagious. When I share love, it comes back to me multiplied. Love opens every door.”
“To find a man's true character, play golf with him.”
“if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.”
“I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.”
“The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.”
“The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.”
“The hardest part has been learning how to take myself seriously when the entire world is constantly telling me that femininity is always inferior to masculinity”

Source : Julia Serano (2016). “Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity”, p.130, Seal Press

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