"Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself."

“If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.”

“The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.48, The Feminist Press at CUNY

“Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.”

“The people who I thought would be the hardest to work with were the easiest, and the people I thought would be the easiest were actually the hardest.”

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“There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.”

“There were class differences among black people then and there are class differences among black people now. There is still an assumption among many people in American society that being black is its own class, a blanket class. That, I believe, is an erroneous and deeply offensive view.”

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“I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”

“It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set.”