"The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion ..."

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Source : Martha Ostenso (1932). “Prologue to Love”, New York : Dodd, Mead

Martha Ostenso

#Passion Quotes #Past Quotes #May Quotes

“The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia.”
“We are learning all the time - about the world and about ourselves. We learn without knowing that we are learning and we learn without effort every moment of the day. We learn what is interesting to us... and we learn from what makes sense to us, because there is nothing to learn from what confuses us except that it is confusing.”
“What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.”
“I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.”
“I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.”
“Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.”
“Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.”

Source : Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”
“Expect wonderful things to happen to you. Get up each morning and say; 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'”

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