"The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are."

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Darcey Steinke

#Doors Quotes #Stronger Quotes #Problem Quotes

“You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel.”
“Its the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and thats what matters.”
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.”

Source : Quoted in New Outlook, Dec. 1933
“Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.”

Source : "It's Official: Halle Berry Is Still The Sexiest Woman Alive At 42!" by Beth Shapouri, www.glamour.com. Ocotber 8, 2008.
“I do feel that a poem needs not just space, but, ideally, space around that space - space for meditation, reverie, subliminal link-ups. I sense that poetry happens at a level above or below intelligence. It doesn't come into being at a purely rational level.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk
“Something impractical cannot be beautiful.”

Source : Otto Wagner (1988). “Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to this Field of Art”, p.82, Getty Publications
“My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.”

Source : "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.
“I think she definitely played a great tournament here. I mean, she reached the final as a very young girl. I know she can be very dangerous. I just did what my coach David told me, that I had to really go for every shot, to not really give her the time for her game. Definitely she's a talented player.”

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