"Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure"

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Dorothy Allison

#Two Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Different Quotes

“I think kids who have music in their lives are more focused. They have better attention spans. They excel more in their studies. They have a better sense of self-esteem and self-worth.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.”
“So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.”

Source : "How Parents and Teens Can Communicate Without Strife". Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 12, 2010.
“You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.”
“Sometimes I dream that I'm working; that's awful. When you awaken after a big, surprising dream, you feel it's very interesting. When you sit and write it down, you realize it's a very poor script. But I may find ideas while dozing.”
“I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.”

Source : "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.
“My hobby is fishing for girls.”
“I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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