"I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise."

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Source : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

Jessica Savitch

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“As for breaking up, once the relationship is over, you never really know what went wrong; you just feel nauseous whenever the subject comes to mind. After a plane crash there's the black box that tells the FAA what caused the crack-up. Too bad there's no black box of relationships.”
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”

Source : Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.28, Vintage
“Feminism doesn't mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!”
“I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I should be putting together the fifth book, but then more poems are coming. It's exciting and somewhat daunting. You know how we are when a new book of poems is at last coming together - all frenzy, distraction, and bounty? It's as if I've turned into summer itself.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and a leg, using the citrus fruits, which are much more affordable than flowers, because you need so many flowers to create the essences. In this country [USA], there is not a traditional science of making it. The Native Americans never did it. They bundled the sage.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“But in our time women are no longer subject to the will of men. Quite the contrary. They have been given every opportunity to win their independence and if, after all this time, they still have not liberated themselves and thrown off their shackles, we can only arrive at one conclusion: there are no shackles to throw off.”

Source : Esther Vilar (2005). “The Manipulated Man”, p.17, Pinter & Martin Publishers
“Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.”
“Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.”

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