"This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out."

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Source : Hortense Calisher (2013). “Herself: An Autobiographical Work”, p.62, Open Road Media

Hortense Calisher

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“I think it says something about our culture. We, maybe, need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are. This contraceptive thing. My gosh, itâ€™s so inexpensive. Back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasnâ€™t that costly.”

Source : "'Where Are the Women?': Lawmakers Walk Out on Contraception Rule Hearing After Female Witness Barred". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan González, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2012.
“I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how you arrange the elements in front of a camera has an impact on people's belief about that world in some way.”
“There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.”
“It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Nas is one of the Greatest Ever. Never has and never will need a ghostwriter. That manâ€™s pen and legacy is without question.”

Source : "The Nas Controversy and Why Rappers Are Afraid of Ghostwriters". www.complex.com. August 17, 2012.
“I think there's just too much greed in the world today [and] that's why we have problems.”
“One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.”
“We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing.”

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