"When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?"

-- Geena Rocero

#Inspiring Quotes #Names Quotes #Two Quotes

“If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.”

Source : Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”
“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.”
“Poised for flight, Wings spread bright, Spring from night into the Sun.”
“To look at any thing, If you would know that thing, You must look at it long: To look at this green and say, "I have seen spring in these Woods," will not do - you must Be the thing you see: You must be the dark snakes of Stems and ferny plumes of leaves, You must enter in To the small silences between The leaves, You must take your time And touch the very peace They issue from.”
“Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,--I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ.”
“Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.”

Source : "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.
“We tend to harp on little things, or worry about something, when, really, it's just not that important. If you have a roof over your head, and you're healthy, and your family is healthy, that's all that matters. Don't let the little things get you down.”

Source : "Interview with Asher Roth: Swim Naked and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.58, A&C Black

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