"One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in their literary lives, getting prizes and awards and the better teaching gigs, women tend to sort of drop away."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Erin Belieu

#Strong Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.”
“Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.”
“We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy priority over a common European approach. We have to prevent this.”
“Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.”
“All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.”
“Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans - not to mention the possibilities of the book as the economic bible of a fascist movement.”
“When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.”
“I don't think there's anything out there I can be afraid of.”

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