"What doesn't kill you, makes you fat."

--

Source : Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.63, Da Capo Press

Esmeralda Santiago

“The sensation of flying is incredible, and its such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.”
“I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.”
“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”
“Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms.”

Source : Tom Izzo during Big Ten Conference Men's Media Days, www.asapsports.com. October 25, 2012.
“I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.”
“We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.”

Source : "Mikulski: We’ll fight with ‘shoulders square, lipstick on’" by Mary C. Curtis, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.
“Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.”
“My mum was a dinner lady and a cleaner while dad worked night shifts as a hydraulic engineer. They did not have a lot of spare cash and only ever bought what they could afford. We never had a car and cycled everywhere. We never went to restaurants. I did not know what Chinese food tasted like until I was 15.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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