"How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?"

-- Jandy Nelson

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“Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.”
“Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.”

Source : Tarja Halonen's speech at the opening of the Women of Learning exhibition in Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.
“Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.”
“When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.”
“I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, and I consider myself lucky and blessed to be where I am - just working.”
“The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a place of disembodiment where bodies are policed and enviolenced, a place that is apparently 'nowhere'.”

Source : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.
“Computers are good at swift, accurate computation and at storing great masses of information. The brain, on the other hand, is notas efficient a number cruncher and its memory is often highly fallible; a basic inexactness is built into its design. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.”
“Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.”

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