"There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature."

-- Marguerite Duras

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.”
“Can you ever â€œsolveâ€ poverty? Â Can you ever â€œsolveâ€ crime? Â Can you ever â€œsolveâ€ disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Â Hell no.”
“Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.”
“metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.”

Source : Sandra Marie Schneiders (1986). “Women and the Word: The Gender of God in the New Testament and the Spirituality of Women”, p.27, Paulist Press
“I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.”
“I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal”
“Make history or be a part of it.”
“In spring rain a pretty girl yawning.”

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