"Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition."

-- Miranda July

#Girl Quotes #Honesty Quotes #Self Quotes

“I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life”
“The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin”
“I think everybody wants to make a difference in some way.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is politically correct and neatly packaged for sale.”
“Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.”
“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.”
“I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.”
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

Source : "Magical realism ... and fakery" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

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