"People are going to bash you. You get rejected. It's hard. I don't really feel like that's my place as the teacher. I think the most important thing is to figure out what they're trying to do and turn them onto writers who are doing similar stuff. I think that's something I can do more than anything else: get them to be big readers."

-- Molly Antopol

#Teacher Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I did get a nice compliment from Ramona Fradon a few years ago.She was talking about the one and only Plastic Man comic that I inked for her for DC and she said it was the only time that she'd ever had anyone ink her. Everyone else put in their own personality and changed it. In fact, bless her heart, she said if she were still doing Brenda Starr, she'd have me ink it.”
“Hi. It's Nikki. I'm not here right now because I'm dead.”
“I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.”

Source : Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.11, 谷月社
“Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.”
“What separates an ordinary woman from an extraordinary one? The belief that she is ordinary.”
“The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also it's a place where the novel of development, the novel of consciousness, has gone.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.”
“To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.”

Source : Gertrude Jekyll (1919). “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”

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