"I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect."

-- Sandra Cisneros

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“Yoga teaching is that you're not your dark side or your woo-woo, you're pure awareness. Our job is to begin to gain that discrimination and insight so we can separate from our identification.”
“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.”
“Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.”
“However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.”
“This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.”
“My reputation will always precede me to the day I die. For some people, that probably can't be quickly enough.”

Source : "Barton: Jail Hell has saved me" by Simon Bird, www.mirror.co.uk. October 23, 2008.
“I don't know why I write. The honest answer is that I don't have an answer. I wouldn't die if I couldn't write fiction. Actually keel over and die - it's unlikely. But quite quickly writing has come to feel like the only thing I really know how to do. And I go a bit stir crazy if I don't write more or less every day. But that makes writing sound like a mood-regulator, a way to regulate anxiety or depression, and it doesn't really come down to that.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Taylor Martinez is to Nebraska what iPad is to Apple.”

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