"I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret."

-- Ayelet Waldman

#Regret Quotes #Guilt Quotes #Energy Quotes

“I'm a good mother. I'm a good person.”
“Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.”
“I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.”
“War doesn't need more participants. It needs fewer participants.”
“The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.”
“There are some times you win, and there are other times you build character.”
“I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in modern theatre was not for me. While figuring out what the hell I might do instead of theatre, I spent a couple of days on a horror film doing stunt work. I'd never been behind the camera before, and I loved everything about it. I joined the local film co-op - The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta - because you could trade skills for experience. These indie filmmakers were making their own stuff their own way, all the time. Instant education.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“So, to add to a momentous day, I corrected a misconception that my family had held for at least fifteen years and came out to them as straight.”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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