"The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value."

-- Frederick Crews

#Recovery Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.”
“When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.”
“In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.”
“I donâ€™t mind if the character is a small character, but I would just like her to have a journey in the film. Sometimes the characters are just there as a prop to further the manâ€™s story. The great directors Iâ€™ve talked to, Iâ€™ve said listen, I donâ€™t mind playing a woman that is a tiny part, but how does the story affect her? What can I play in the end thatâ€™s different from the beginning? Otherwise, it doesnâ€™t make sense, because itâ€™s just like being a prop.”
“Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.”
“Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.”
“the writer must resist this temptation [to quote] and do his best with his own tools. It would be most convenient for us musicians if, arrived at a given emotional crisis in our work, we could simply stick in a few bars of Brahms or Schubert. Indeed many composers have no hesitation in so doing. But I have never heard the practice defended; possibly because that hideous symbol of petty larceny, the inverted comma, cannot well be worked into a musical score.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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