"Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides"

-- Christopher Flavin

#Hard Times Quotes #Men Quotes #Wife Quotes

“A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.”
“You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.”
“Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.”
“No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.”
“I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance.”

Source : "The Funny Side of Love". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, nymag.com. September 19, 2010.
“Make your race a playground, not a proving ground.”
“I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.”
“You can't feel happy unless you feel free.”

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