"If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead."

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Source : "Precarious Beauty" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2011.

Daphne Guinness

“Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.”
“Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.”
“I want you to remember who you are, despite the bad things that are happening to you. Because those bad things aren't you. They are just things that happen to you. You need to accept that who you are and the things that happen you, are not one and the same.”

Source : Colleen Hoover (2013). “Hopeless”, p.323, Simon and Schuster
“When that mama worry takes ahold of a woman you can't expect no sense from her. She'll do or say anything at all and you just better hope you ain't in her way. That's the Lord's doing right there. He made mothers to be like that on account of children need protecting and the men ain't around to do it most of the time. Helping that child be up to the mama. But God never gives us a task without giving us the means to see it through. That mama worry come straight from Him, it make it so she can't help but look after that child.”
“The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency.”
“Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.”
“I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.”
“And while you and the rest of your kind are battling together-year after year-for this special privilege of being 'bored to death,' the 'real girl' that you're asking about, the marvelous girl, the girl with the big, beautiful, unspoken thoughts in her head, the girl with the big, brave, undone deeds in her heart, the girl that stories are made of, the girl whom you call 'improbable'-is moping off alone in some dark, cold corner-or sitting forlornly partnerless against the bleak wall of the ballroom-or hiding shyly up in the dressing-room-waiting to be discovered!”

Source : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “Little Eve Edgarton”, p.9, The Floating Press

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