"Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman."

-- Carolyn Heilbrun

#Life Quotes #Self Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“Teaching is the ability to inspire learning.”
“If it hadn't been for Grandma, we'd have had no ethnic tone at all.”

Source : Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.8, Feminist Press at CUNY
“What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love her and to such disastrous ends.”
“The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Our attitude determines our altitude.”
“Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.”

Source : Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

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