"We're all vulnerable in our various ways, and what we are physically, our bodies, is what has developed with the goal of keeping that life safe and intact, at least until we have procreated. That's what our bodies are, the protection of life."

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Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

Pattiann Rogers

#Goal Quotes #Body Quotes #Safe Quotes

“I believe rules are meant to be broken.”
“Everyone was like, "You're life is going to change so much," but I don't think anybody recognizes me. Sometimes my friends will say, "Oh, that person recognized you," but I don't notice it. I don't even look at people when I walk because it weirds me out, if they're looking at me.”
“All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process under consideration, and the other is dynamics, describing the evolution in time of these forms.”
“The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.”
“When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.”
“I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.”
“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.”
“The holiness of the church means that life, as well as truth, marks Christâ€™s church; the behavior of Christians in the world must be remarkable enough to cause grudging admiration, astonished curiosity or threatening hostility.”

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