"By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips."

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Laurell K. Hamilton

#Rejection Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Collecting Quotes

“The tragedy wasn’t that Stanford White died, but that I lived.”
“Who isn't a fan of Ray Charles?”
“I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that when rabbits and prickly pears and other things from Europe were introduced into Australia, they ran amok.”

Source : "Total Peace: What Makes Wars and how to Organize Peace".
“The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.”
“If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 20, 2009.
“People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr
“I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.”
“I'd really like to see smart sex writing, writing that can take sex apart and try to put it back together, that doesn't just put a box around "sex writing" and give it glaring neon lights but assumes that sex is part of everything else in our lives.”

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