"Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman to the world in general. Of course, being female is always indelicate and extreme, like operating heavy machinery. Every woman knows the feeling of being a stack of roving flesh. Sometimes all you've accomplished by the end of the day is to have maneuvered your body through space without grave incident."

-- Hilary Thayer Hamann

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Space Quotes

“Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.”

Source : "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.
“Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.”
“Western man is schizophrenic.”
“Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.”
“When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.”
“It's probably the toughest distance race in the world to win. World class runners from 1500m to the marathon contest it and instead of just three runners from each country, like in the Olympics or World Championships, in the senior men's race there are nine.”
“May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass. (to the jurors who convicted her)”
“On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

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