"all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened."

-- Vita Sackville-West

#Age Quotes #Body Quotes #Youth Quotes

“Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.”
“For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.”

Source : "Will Fawzia Koofi Be Afghanistan's First Female President?" by Fawzia Koofi, www.thedailybeast.com. January 6, 2012.
“in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.”
“I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.”
“Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”

Source : "Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century)". Book by Donna J. Haraway (pp. 149-181), 1991.
“I love art, I collect mostly modern art.”

Source : "TechStar Interview: Alan Patricof". Interview with Bill Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2011.
“To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.”

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