"In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school."

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Alice Mattison

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“When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.”

Source : Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2010.
“I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.”
“Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.”
“The essence of all beauty, I call love.”

Source : Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.179
“Diplomacy is the art of letting the other party have things your way.”
“I have to try different things to see what works best. Other people get impatient with that.”
“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.”
“But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.”

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