"We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?"

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Source : Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.135, Bantam

Sarah Addison Allen

#Selfish Quotes #Insecure Quotes #Scared Quotes

“I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.”
“Be my wife, all my life.”

Source : Jodi Thomas (2002). “The Texan's Wager”, p.66, Penguin
“The greatest gratification that I get to work with these hands is that when I come out and I go to the waiting room and speak and talk to the families of my patients, I get standing ovations and I get tears and they look at me as superhuman and superhero. No amount of money, no amount of anything can ever compare to that feeling.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.”
“I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.”

Source : "Michael K Williams on drugs, guns and avocados". Interview With Lanre Bakare, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2015.
“Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.”
“You figure out how to create opportunities to make music, and then, if you take care of the music, audiences will come around. They also might leave. What matters is the moment: the moment of making music, with and for and among others, and what that offers to those people in that moment. They might never see me again; they might never learn my name. But it might still be something they carry with them.”
“I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.”

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