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Franny Billingsley

"I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though Iâ€™m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichÃ©d feelings. Iâ€™m glad Iâ€™m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface."

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.157, A&C Black

Franny Billingsley

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“Don't do what's right to get something. Do the right thing because it's the right thing.”
“A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.”
“Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.”

Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.82, Harvard University Press
“If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character.”
“And the reason I came to IBM was I think - I always say at a really early age, I learned you've got to be passionate about what you do. No matter what it is, you put too much, your heart and soul in it, you have to be passionate about it. You make too many sacrifices.”
“Today's dialogue has succeeded in reinforcing the need for international partnerships and cooperation in tackling the reality of climate change.”
“Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated fairly and with respect, they will provide unparalleled levels of support and commitment inside the business, and to clients and customers. Everyone is more successful when people are paid a living wage.”
“Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out”

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