"Donâ€™t let them see you weak."

-- Ann Aguirre

“I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.”
“If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing. In fact, most of my work is concerned with destroyingâ€”or at least deconstructingâ€”conventional ideas of beauty, of the generic appeal of the beautiful, glamorous, bourgeois woman. Fashion fosters clichÃ©s of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.”
“I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.”
“Touch was important. The evening of the Third of July we would go around the neighborhood and look at the fireworks others had bought, taking them out of the brown paper sack and handling them cautiously as if they were precious stones. There was envy when we saw sacks with more in them than we had.”
“When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.”
“I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often,”
“It's been really good to have a goal and go after it. That feels good”
“There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will.”

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