"I bend, but I do not break."

-- Jean de La Fontaine

“Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
“I can't wait to sit with these unbelievable broads and relive a time where sleep did not exist, where stress and coffee were mama's little helpers, and where we all dove into the deep end together to make something weird and very, very cool.”
“My fellow nerds and I will retire to the nerdery with our calculators.”

Source : "Fictional character: Richard Hayden". "Tommy Boy", www.imdb.com. 1995.
“Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.”

Source : Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.135, Penguin UK
“I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.”

Source : Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.
“Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing”

Source : Time Out Interview with Brett Martin, April 1, 1999.
“I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.”

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