"Whatever the theories may be of woman's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens."

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Men Quotes #May Quotes #Bears Quotes

“Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.”
“The only certainty life contains is death.”
“My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.”
“You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have”
“To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the ability of average people to peacefully, productively coexist without some official policing their every move. The State is merely another human institution - less creative than Microsoft, less reliable than Federal Express, less responsible than the average farmer husbanding his land, and less prudent than the average citizen spending his own paycheck.”
“I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.”
“I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking.”
“I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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