"When I was a little kid I thought like a little kid, but now I'm five I know everything"

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Source : Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

Emma Donoghue

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“... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.”
“Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.”
“I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.”
“Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to be told how to think. Its more important for me to do things that are spiritually rewarding because that wealth is what makes me feel alive. I do not touch projects that do not yield personal fulfillment, or put me in a field with talent that is over-measured. You wont find me where there is no Truth. And Im not one to jump on any bandwagons or join a gold rush without a purpose. Id rather create my own projects and grow my own fields.”
“If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.”
“Right or wrong, when a team is doing well, the head coach and the quarterback get all the praise and when a team's not doing well, the head coach and the quarterback get all the blame. I've learned to drown that out.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.”
“A friend of mine, Kim Hastreiter, who owns Paper Magazine, she told me, "When you left, it really changed things and you need to do something." So with the encouragement of others, I stayed around and watched, and I saw that all the girls before, such an enormous group of girls of color, all shades, it began to disappear.”

Source : Source: time.com

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