"What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it."

“At the heart of the WTO is an assault on everything left standing in the commons, in the public realm. Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale. Economic freedom - not democracy, and not ecological stewardship - is the defining metaphor of the WTO and its central goal is humanity's mastery of the natural world through its total commodification.”

“Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.”

“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”

“I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.”

“Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.”

“Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy — just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.”

“Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.”

“I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1923). “Children of Loneliness”