"If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
“On the Web, all advantages are temporary, and you must keep innovating to stay ahead”
“An embellished top with slim pants is great, even for a wedding.”
“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into actual service on every occasion. The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a truly anti-republican principle; and when we see many men disposed to practice upon it, whenever they can prevail, no wonder true republicans are for carefully guarding against it.”

Source : "An Additional Number of Letters to the Republican". Letters by the Federal Farmer (pseudonym of Richard Henry Lee), Letter XVIII, teachingamericanhistory.org. January 25, 1988.
“Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?”
“We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.”
“Thus, on this World Refugee Day, let us take time to recognize and draw inspiration from these ordinary people who have shown such extraordinary courage - the world's millions of refugees and displaced.”
“You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com

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