"Why do we love the idea that people might be secretly working together to control and organise the world? Because we don't like to face the fact that our world runs on a combination of chaos, incompetence and confusion."

“I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.”

“I view art as an inspirational tool.”

“... the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ... that trickery is the real enemy and the very essence of the thing we must continually be on our guard against.”

“I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.”

“It is people's hearts that move the age.”

“I would spend almost as much time planning a practice as conducting it. Everything was planned out each day”

“The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (1961). “The bronze bow”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

“When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.”