"I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men."

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Source : Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 02, 2012.

Joanna Trollope

#Girl Quotes #Men Quotes #Cupcakes Quotes

“The only thing that's new is the internet! But the problems and issues that all the kids go through now, it's nothing different! It's funny how your kid can come home and tell you something and you can tell them almost how it's going to play out. It's crazy, I be like 'Wow, am I that old?' But you've seen it before, and it's the same thing.”

Source : Source: www.parlemag.com
“She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves.”
“They said, congratulations you got what it takes. They sent him back to the rat race without any brakes.”
“You need to be happy with who you are and, whoever that is, let your little light shine.”
“I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.”
“We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.”
“As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.”

Source : Edward Thomson (1856). “Essays, moral and religious”, p.35
“To be a part of a show that makes that not feel demanding and makes it feel natural and makes you want to go to work, every day, and be excited about it, from what I hear, that's pretty rare.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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