"I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11"

-- Sara Paretsky

#Girl Quotes #Magazines Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.”
“the people who live in the last places - the people who are most neglected and least valued by the larger world - often represent the best of who we are and the finest standard of what we are meant to become. This is the power that last places hold over me, and why I have found it impossible to resist their pull.”

Source : Radio broadcast following his abdication, 11 December 1936, in 'The Times' 12 December 1936
“Sexy in India is not considered positive. But, with today's crop of fresh faces in the modelling arena, being sexy is an asset.”
“I know that sounds clichÃ©, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things.”
“I don't think our family is falling apart and getting destroyed. I just think it's rearranging itself in the way God meant it to be because it wasn't working how it was.”
“You treat people with respect, they tend to return the favor to the company.”
“Try to buy assets at a discount than to buy earnings.”
“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.”

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