"I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need."

-- Christine Gregoire

#Heart Quotes #Mean Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and don't get to discover any others.”
“You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.”

Source : Leslie Marmon Silko, Melody Graulich (1993). “Yellow Woman”, p.3, Rutgers University Press
“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”

Source : Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.27, Penguin
“The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is a process of discovery. We are looking for the meaning of life. No matter where you are, there are conflicts and dramas everywhere. It is the process of what it means to be a human being; how you react and are reacted upon, these inward and outer pressures. If you are writing with a direct cause in mind, you are writing propaganda. It's fatal for a fiction writer.”
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
“There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.”
“I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.”
“We set ourselves to achieve a society that would be maximally tolerant. But that resolve not only gives maximum scope to the activities of those who have set themselves to achieve the maximally intolerant society. It also... paralyses our powers of resistance to them.”

Source : David Stove (2017). “On Enlightenment”, p.164, Routledge

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