"Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature."

-- Tayari Jones

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“I would not like to be the only woman on the court.”
“People who leave their cars on the street with tape covering their broken windows are obviously too trusting. I mean, when your car did have glass for a window, someone broke into it. How is tape any more of a deterrent? What are the thieves going to say? Ooh, that like looks like duct tape, we can't beat that. Let's look for one with scotch or masking.”
“I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.”
“I don't have a bullet in my head, do I? So I'm fine.”
“â€¦Itâ€™s like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.”
“You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.”

Source : Shere Hite (2011). “The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality”, p.358, Seven Stories Press
“I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.”

Source : Joyce Cary, Alan Bishop (1976). “Selected essays”, Michael Joseph
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent they conquered.”

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