"Critchley and Websterâ€™s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded."

-- Hari Kunzru

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“Fathers' sharing in the birth experience can be a stimulus for men's freedom to nurture, and a sign of changing relationships between men and women. In the same way, women's freedom to give birth at home is a political decision, an assertion of determination to reclaim the experience of birth. Birth at home is about changing society.”

Source : Sheila Kitzinger (2011). “Birth Your Way: Choosing Birth at Home Or in a Birth Center”, p.179, Fresh Heart Publishing
“Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?”
“The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.”

Source : Michelle Tea (1998). “The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America”, Semiotext(e)
“Darling, the world doesn't owe you anything.”
“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”
“There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.”
“Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”

Source : Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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