"Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her."

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Source : Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.16, W. W. Norton & Company

Lawrence Hill

#Beautiful Quotes #Hands Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Make the wise man within you your living ideal.”
“Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.”
“We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax work less”
“Let's try and create scenes that are about something... About something deeper than this ashtray.”

Source : "Community Mourns the Death of Martin de Maat" by Lisa Lewis, March 2, 2001.
“The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.”
“What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.”
“Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.”
“Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.”

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