"If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Vanessa Veselka

#Offensive Quotes

“Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.”

Source : Harvey Karp, M.D. (2008). “The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer”, p.20, Bantam
“Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel (which would be analogous to total CO2) but on one thread on that nut, which represents the human contribution.”
“My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and are not able to be in a healthy relationship due to historical damage and with non-Native men because I no longer want to educate them about Indigenous Issues. I'm tired of being the educator or nurse.”
“I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.”

Source : “Larry Bird: What I've Learned” by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. January 6, 2009.
“I'd guess that 80 percent of the people who work for Playboy are feminists.”
“Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.”
“My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.”
“I should not be judged by a standard that's not applied to everyone else.”

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