"I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women."

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Source : Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

Eve Arnold

#Children Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Birth Quotes

“I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. The imaginary relish is so sweet That it enchants my sense.”
“I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.”
“We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
“The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.”
“The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.”

Source : Walter Karp (1973). “Indispensable enemies: the politics of misrule in America”
“With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.”
“We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.”
“And love is love, in beggars and in kings.”

Source : Sir Edward Dyer, “The Lowest Trees Have Tops”

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