"Of course, I didn't imagine then that I could have had a real relationship with any guy. I thought that by virtue of being me I was disqualified."

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Curtis Sittenfeld

#Real Quotes #Guy Quotes #Being Me Quotes

“Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.”
“Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.”
“It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.”
“I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids.”
“A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
“Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.”
“The true experimenters are there but no-one hears about them - the critical/review system tends to concentrate on the handful of 'major' writers and their promising successors; bookshops tend not to sell them; publishers don't promote them. It's the same fate as has befallen poetry.”
“Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.”

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