"A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere."

-- Cherrie Moraga

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“Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ...”

Source : Ellen Key (1911). “The Morality of Woman: And Other Essays”
“Rely on yourself, and be true to who you are. What's unique about you is what will take you far. Don't look to others to say you're okay. You know it--so believe it!-- show your own self the way.”
“Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
“People have enough ideas. The real question is "Which ideas are you going to use?".”
“I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.”
“You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them.”
“It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.”
“Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.”

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