"Everyone who was ever told a fairytale knows what happens to women who do their own magic."

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Source : Laurie Penny (2014). “Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution”, p.243, A&C Black

Laurie Penny

#Magic Quotes #Fairytale Quotes

“We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.”
“Well, for me, it's the relationship between comedy and life - that's the edge I live on, and maybe it's my protection against looking at the tragedy of it all. It's seeing life in balance. Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny, if seen from a comedic point of view.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves.”
“He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.”

Source : Henry Clay Trumbull (1893). “Hints on Child-training”
“I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else." The second part was more a plea, and to her surprise the superbly inhuman fighter smiled softly and said, "Yes ... I suppose that's true, though I never thought of it in those terms before.”
“The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.”

Source : Ameen Fares Rihani (1921). “The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West”
“Often, one discovery leads to interest in another. After the Dauphin's heart had undergone DNA testing and was placed in the crypt at St. Denis, I think people wanted some closure to the story about the fate of the royal couple's only child who survived the gruesome Temple Prison. I know I did.”
“Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.”

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