"The best fiction stays with you and changes you."

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Source : Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14, 2010.

Tea Obreht

#Fiction Quotes

“At Planned Parenthood, we see the impact of abortion stigma firsthand, in the women who delay getting reproductive health care because they fear theyâ€™ll be labeled and judged. We see the effect of stigma on doctors, health center staffers, and others who help provide abortion services. And we see the impact in laws that regulate and restrict abortion in ways that would never happen with any other medical procedure.”

Source : "Ending the Silence That Fuels Abortion Stigma" by Cecile Richards, www.elle.com. October 16, 2014.
“Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?”
“For the fee of $10,000, anyone could be escorted to a room, handed a loaded gun and offered another human to kill. The concept made me nauseous. But it also felt real, and rang bells with my more cynical side.”
“I'm a huge fan of Mariah Carey. I admired her music for so long. It's hard to follow on her footstep. She's so successful. Mariah's Mariah. To be compared to her is a huge compliment.”
“If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.”
“Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.”
“Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.”

Source : Benjamin Rush (1951). “Letters of Benjamin Rush: 1761-1792”
“Some people do not eat cow meat. I do so, provided it's tender.”

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