"This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the black wood and decide what youâ€™ll trade for power. For the opposite of weakness, which is not strength but hardness. I am a trap, but so is everything. Pick your price. I am a huckster with a hand in your pocket. I am freedom and I will eat your heart."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Pain Quotes #Mean Quotes #Heart Quotes

“I have spent a lot of time in the art world, and I guess I do listen to how people speak. I'm interested in what they say and how they say it.”
“It's very hard, I think especially for women, to not take it in and to not be super conscious of the way that you're being seen, which is of course completely antithetical to the work you want to do, which is completely free and bold and truthful and honest and brave.”
“It's time to stop tiptoeing around the pool and jump into the deep end, head first. It's time to think big, want more and achieve it all!”
“On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate ground, fight.”
“Not to sound too deep or weird, but I think that the times when you really appreciate surfing are the times you're really sort of becoming one with nature. Surfing's as raw of a sport as it gets.”
“Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.”
“I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.”

Source : "The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer". Book by John Mack Faragher, p. 301, 1993.
“Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.”

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