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“I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.”
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“I try to educate people. I've told the hijra community that it's not about getting breasts or having sexual reassignment surgery. First we need our rights. We need our dignity. We need inclusion in every bloody policy for the marginalized. We need education. We need dignified shelter. There are many like me who are able to earn without begging. But the fact is that before even coming into the social sector, I was running a dance class, and before that I was a model coordinator. I didn't want to beg, or do sex work, or sell myself.”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.”
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“If you come, you better come in force because I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake, my aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die." I jammed my knife into the table and walked out.”
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“there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.”
Source : Tom Brokaw (1998). “The Greatest Generation”, Random House Large Print Publishing
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“Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.”
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“Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.”
Source : "Exams work because they're scary". Daily Telegraph, May 12, 2005.
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“I hate the endless admonishments of a nanny state that lives in fear of its lawyers. While colonies of dim-witted traffic wardens swarm about looking for minor parking infringements, nobody seems to notice that our very social fabric is falling apart.”
Source : Christopher Fowler (2010). “The Victoria Vanishes: (Bryant and May Book 6)”, p.248, Random House
