"In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the husband's fetishistic delectation. At the same time, babies were segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried."

-- Germaine Greer

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“No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.”
“Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job.”

Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers
“I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.”

Source : "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.
“If you feel good about your clothes, you get excited. And I want women to feel good when they're wearing my clothes - not just because they're beautiful, but because the process and every step involved in making them is incredibly thoughtful. You can be proud wearing them.”
“I've always giggled like a 13-year-old girl at a Justin Bieber meet and greet. There's nothing I can do about it but I've never not been able to stop.”
“A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion.”
“Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.”

Source : Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.11, Vintage
“Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.”

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