"Some women make it look so easy, the way they cast ambition off like an expensive coat that no longer fits."

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Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.65, Vintage

Jenny Offill

#Ambition Quotes #Looks Quotes #Coats Quotes

“She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she always had to be reassured.”
“Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.”
“Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?”
“Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.”
“The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.”
“God has chosen us to help one another.”
“You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.”

Source : "Regina King's biggest love lesson" by Jill Cox-Cordova, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2011.
“I love when pictures ask questions or make others ask questions.”

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