"I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Christopher Bollen

#Wings Quotes #Mentor Quotes #Wanted Quotes

“So afraid of taking chances. How you gonna reach the top?”
“Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.”
“I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”

Source : "PD James, Queen of Detective Fiction: Interview". Interview With Jake Kerridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 26, 2009.
“If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.”

Source : Catharine Esther Beecher (1829). “Suggestions Respecting Improvements in Education: Presented to the Trustees of the Hartford Female Seminary, and Published at Their Request”, p.16
“Be careful. Wait out your year. Come home.”

Source : Jessica Day George (2011). “Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow”, p.165, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Iâ€™d be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
“What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.”
“Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.”

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