"there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression."

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Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

Monique Wittig

#Mistake Quotes #Writing Quotes #Expression Quotes

“I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.”
“I just never want to completely grow up.”
“The first thing you should know about people is that you donâ€™t know the first thing about them.”

Source : Charles Cumming (2010). “The Spanish Game: A Novel”, p.251, Macmillan
“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.”
“Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times Â it is there.”
“I believe in entertainment. I love entertainment. But I love it with a purpose. I want people to come out thinking about what they saw, and perhaps reassessing what's happening in their own lives with their families.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.”
“There are eight different breeds of peacock. I have them all.”

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