"Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence."

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Kim Edwards

#Simple Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Tasks Quotes

“The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.”
“No, the best way to stop a vehicle is to shoot the driver. And that you can do with a number of weapons.”
“Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press
“Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.”
“No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”
“You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.”
“Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.”
“In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.”

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