"I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be."

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Anne Enright

#Writing Quotes #Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.”
“When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.”

Source : 'To Althea, From Prison'
“I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.”
“I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.”
“Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.”
“No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!”
“Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.”

Source : Quoted in Rachel E Cresswell and Katharine Fry Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry (1848).
“He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]”

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