"There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating."

-- Jenny Diski

#Cheating Quotes #Artist Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“People sometimes say how standup is so hard, and I always tell them that it's hard at the beginning.”
“Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.”
“Her legacy was her quiet dignity and instinctive rage against injustice, ... What she determined on the spot was that her dignity would not allow her to be treated unjustly.”
“It all ends in one of two ways: either someone gets eaten or something blows up.”
“Some people here think they donâ€™t have to breastfeed, and I think, â€˜Are you going to give chemical food to your child, when they are so little?â€™ There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.”
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
“And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.”

Source : Anna Garlin Spencer (1908). “Woman's Share in Social Culture”
“I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I'm right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.”

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