"The things that I want to see happen get no play in mainstream American politics. My primary interests are the legalization of sex work and prison abolition."

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Source : "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

Grace Dunham

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“Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.”
“Until you have bred dogs and have drawn and painted them, it is difficult to realize that no two are identical in conformation. You need do no more than gun for a day over two of them to recognize that each is an individual. It requires the intimacy of daily living with a dog to know the subtle quality of his mind, the ham-smell of his ears, and that his wet nose in your mouth tastes salty.”
“Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so widely credentialed, and its young members so fetishize the work beloved by their teachers that their work ceases to talk about anything else. Instead of enlarging our view of being human, it contains safe rehashing of received ideas about received ideas. This is a melancholy romance with artistic ruins, homesickness for a bygone era. This yearning may be earnest, but it stunts their work, and by turn the broader culture.”
“A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.”

Source : "Flying Lessons". Federal Aviation Administration, January 08, 2008.
“The flowers were so beautiful, so delicate and unthreatening, but they choked everything around them.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Uglies”, p.166, Simon and Schuster
“I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.”
“There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.”

Source : Jean Craighead George (2011). “The Summer of the Falcon”, p.52, Open Road Media
“It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.”

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