"I don't know why this is, but I really believe that things don't happen when we're trying to will them into being. They don't happen when we're waiting for the phone to ring or the email to pop up in our inbox. They don't happen when we're gripping too tightly. They happen-if they happen at all-when we've fully let go of the results. And, perhaps, when we're ready."

Source : "The Manifest-Station Q&A Series: Best-Selling Author Dani Shapiro". Interview with Jennifer Pastiloff, www.themanifeststation.net. September 29, 2013.

Dani Shapiro

#Letting Go Quotes #Monday Quotes #Believe Quotes

“To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual--and hence social--confidence while undermining that of women.”

Source : Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.139, Random House
“Supporting segregation need not be racist. One can believe in segregation and believe in equality of the races.”

Source : "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. December 13, 2002.
“I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then I had this really extraordinary, different life than my parents.”

Source : "Dan Chaon: Characters find sense of self" by Michelle Broder Van Dyke, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2009.
“With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.”

Source : Theodore H. White (1961). “The Making of the President 1960”
“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies and cuts through to the essence of the evolutionary spirit.”
“Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.”
“I am the biggest face of boxing right now. That's how I feel. I am the greatest of this era.”
“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.”

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