"By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better."

-- Carl Honore

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“I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one's sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.”

Source : "Voicing Our Visions: Writings by Women Artists". Book by Mara R. Witzling, 1991.
“We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.”

Source : "AUTHOR INTERVIEW -- Life and Love in the Mexican Revolution / `Lovesick' author puts a passionate woman in the center of the conflict" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. May 4, 1997.
“Kids are a lesson every day, and being married is a lesson every day, but I think having a boutique and running it with my husband and having our careers and raising children was something that was really an eye-opener all the time.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.”
“It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.”
“What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.”
“It's a physical urge, huger and stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that yearns, that longs, that pleads for the jolt of a bullet. I want that rage, that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this dark cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. ... I want to turn out the last light.”
“Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.”

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