"Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual."

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Source : Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

Angela Carter

#Sex Quotes #New York Quotes #Men Quotes

“TV that people will never see, that giant international corporations will never touch, will never pay your salary.”
“Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.”
“Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.”
“Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.”
“Humility is not denying your strengths, humility is being honest about your weaknesses.”
“The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.”

Source : Albert Murray, Roberta S. Maguire (1997). “Conversations with Albert Murray”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.”
“Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.”

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