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“I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.”
Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.”
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“I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is never found without the other. All justified people are sanctified, and all sanctified people are justified. ... Tell me not of your justification, unless you have also some marks of sanctification. Boast not of Christ's work for you, unless you can show us the Spirit's work in you.”
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“Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.”
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“My friends tend to be writers. I think writers and painters are really all the same-we just sit in our rooms.”
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“One wants more time, more youth. That is it. That is all one asks for - nothing but that, a little more time. Hear it running by! Listen! In the night, in the morning, at noon, at even, rushing by, silent, stealthy, trying to hoodwink you by the fixed appearance of things that seem not to change; but never stopping. Oh, to stop it! Oh, to get it back! Oh, to dig one's toes in and refuse to be rushed headlong towards the brink!”
Source : Mary Borden (1925). “Three pilgrims and a tinker: a novel”
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“It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.”
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“Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.”
