"Show me a novelist â€“ or, indeed, a reader â€“ who wasnâ€™t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and Iâ€™llâ€¦ well, Iâ€™ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much."

-- Charlotte Mendelson

#Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Doors Quotes

“The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom.”
“If you knew the pain I had in my legs...what suffering! I couldn't wait to get to the hotel.”
“I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.”
“My hope is next year Terry and I can work out a contract. I have no problem with the Minnesota Twins.”
“The least a person can ask out of life is to be needed by someone.”

Source : maia wojciechowska (1968). “a single light”
“The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'”

Source : Simon Doonan (2008). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“As a general, and as a leader of this team, whatever I've got to do get my guys going I'll do it every time. If I have to be the bad guy sometime, I'll guess I'll take that. That's what a leader and a general and a chief of police does. Everybody is not going to like it, but I don't care if they like or not. I'm Bush, so if they don't like it resign.”
“You might argue that we have become a little too forgiving because, if a perpetrator shows up at a court-martial with a rack of ribbons and has four deployments and a Purple Heart, there is certainly the risk that we might be a little too forgiving of that particular crime.”

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