"Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts."

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Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

Delia Sherman

#Animal Quotes #Feminist Quotes #Desire Quotes

“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.”

Source : "Fictional character: Admiral Josh Painter". "The Hunt for Red October", www.imdb.com. 1990.
“So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.288, Penguin
“Woolf is an important writer for me, someone I read often and who forms part of my ideal of what literature can do.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.”
“The path you're on looks different when you turn around.”
“Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.”

Source : Song: Good Mourning
“My kid is not going to wear a flat bill.”
“Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ.”

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