"We don't need to talk. We need to love."

-- Ellen Sussman

“Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.”

Source : Attributed in "On Being Blonde: Wit And Wisdom From The World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 78), 2004.
“My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.”
“I'm not serious most of the time.”
“The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.”

Source : Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1927). “The Standardization of Error”, New York : W.W. Norton
“A profit is not without honor save in Boston.”
“I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.”

Source : Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Slave Narrative Six Pack 2”, p.280, Enhanced Media Publishing
“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.”

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