"I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in."

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Source : Anzia Yezierska (1923). “Children of Loneliness”

Anzia Yezierska

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“If you wish a general to be beaten, send him a ream full of instructions; if you wish him to succeed, give him a destination, and bid him conquer.”

Source : Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”
“Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.”
“One of the biggest impediments for women is that they have never really understood, looked at or examined their own genitals. They have not really figured out what kind of stimulation and where feels best for them, so they are not able to guide a partner in this.”

Source : "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". TODAY interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.
“Today we send a special wish which comes with love to you, to wish you a day of love and laughter in all you do.”
“When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.”
“You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.”
“Modern death is a matter of bright rooms and hard machines. Live long enough, and you might be filed away in a nursing home, your history scoured away, your life winnowed down to a few items on the table and some pictures of people who don't come around enough. When you are about to pass on, there is no quiet to attend you: busy fuss and professional zeal strive to bring you back, nail you to the soft cross of the rented bed.”
“After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.”

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