"I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me."

-- Isabel Allende

#Feminist Quotes #Catholic Quotes #Age Quotes

“I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.”
“Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.”

Source : John Barth (2014). “Giles Goat-Boy”, p.83, Anchor
“He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.”
“My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.”

Source : Burt Reynolds, Jon Winokur (2015). “But Enough About Me: A Memoir”, p.87, Penguin
“No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.”

Source : "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.
“If the numbers mean anything, they tell us that vastly more life is left in the reviled internal-combustion engine than any of the blue-state lefties could imagine. First, that madman Bush wins, and now this news. How depressing.”
“The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.”
“I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.”

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