"Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more."

-- Edna O'Brien

#Mother Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Hate Quotes

“Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.”
“If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons. And by chance there happen to be such women, for, as I touched on before, just as women have more delicate bodies than men, weaker and less able to perform many tasks, so do they have minds that are freer and sharper whenever they apply themselves.”

Source : "The Book of the City of Ladies". Book by Christine de Pizan, transl. by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Part I, ch. 27, p. 63, 1983.
“As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.”
“How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?”
“My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.”
“I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.”
“A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.”

Source : Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.355, Simon and Schuster
“Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now knowâ€¦I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't broken in yet, you hadn't really hit your stride yet. What I found out paradoxically is that the next script you write doesn't get easier because you wrote one beforeâ€¦each one gets harder by a factor of 10.”

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