"Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware of all life's artifices. Getting dressed, wearing make-up, laughing, having fun-isn't all that just playing a role? Am I not more profound, carrying the burden of those twenty years when I 'wasn't alive', than all those who rushed around in vain during that time?"

-- Malika Oufkir

#Morning Quotes #Fun Quotes #Years Quotes

“We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1974). “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening”, New York : Morrow, 1974, 1975 printing.
“You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.”
“I always like to meet the people I'm going to photograph. I need to have a conversation. I need to feel a vibe. I need to see what's going on in the person. I'm not just interested in physical beauty. I really need a personality.”
“If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.”
“The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.”
“When people donâ€™t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.”
“Everything about it was false. Right then, in that office, with the realization that no one knew the truth about my life, my thoughts about the world were shaken.”
“The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.”

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