"The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both."

-- Susan Sontag

#Inspiration Quotes #Writing Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.”

Source : Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (2003). “Women's Two Roles: Home and Work”, p.161, Psychology Press
“The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.”
“All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”
“Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that.”
“Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.”
“Put on your adidas and step off.”
“A salaried job trains us to be "right" all the time and induces an entitlement mentality. This is because we get paid the same amount no matter what work we are producing, and we begin to see this is fair and right, and we begin being trained to think we are right all the time. When we become salespeople and marketers, we have to leave all of that behind.”

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