"To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'"

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Source : Rebecca McClanahan (2001). “Write Your Heart Out”, Writer's Digest Books

Rebecca McClanahan

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“That's really the big inspiration of this movie. It's really looking at a man who's really showing all the traits and all the characteristics of the classic patriarchal country, where he's of military power, he's the king of the hill at home, as well as in the streets. He has the liberty to live where he wants.”
“Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.”
“My whole career - I have been really lucky.”

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“By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.”
“A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.”
“Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.”
“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
“Whoever debases others is debasing himself.”

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