"I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking."

-- Pearl S. Buck

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“I think most conflicts do end with negotiated settlements; some don't, but most do.”
“Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can.”
“To sustain a career in show business, you have to have a certain amount of delusion, because it's such an insane way to make a living. The idea that you're going to say, "Oh, I think I deserve to be paid attention to, and people should listen to what I have to say, and everybody should look at me," that's a little bit delusional in a way.”

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“If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.”
“I believe that Christianity trains black people, especially black women, to think like slaves, and I believe that Islam is mainly fueled by its hatred for women.”
“I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.”

Source : "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.
“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?”
“Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.”

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