"I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Kate Zambreno

#Book Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.”
“We play at the world's most beautiful beaches but in the world's most challenging conditions. It is not like you play one match and you go back to air conditioning. We do it all day long.”
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor
“The gastric laboratory uses its protein ferment under an acid reaction.”
“Yes, success is everything. Failure is more common. Most achieve a sort of middling thing, but fortunately one's situation is always blurred, you never know absolutely quite where you are.”
“The Bank and the media continue to propagate the story that the global elite wishes to be told: that the number of poor has declined by 24 percent in those 15 years [1990-2005].”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.”
“To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.”

Source : Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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