Maggie Shipstead quotes

“Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.”
-- Maggie Shipstead

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“How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.”
-- Maggie Shipstead

Source : Maggie Shipstead (2014). “Astonish Me: A novel”, p.102, Vintage

#Dream Quotes #Strange Quotes #Turns Quotes

“Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.”
-- Maggie Shipstead

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“With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.”
-- Maggie Shipstead

#Powerful Quotes #Disappointment Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.”
-- Maggie Shipstead

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“Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.”
-- Maggie Shipstead

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#Writing Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.”
-- Maggie Shipstead

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“If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.”
-- Maggie Shipstead

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#Stories Quotes #Discouraged Quotes #Individual Quotes

“I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.”
-- Maggie Shipstead

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#Body Quotes #Lone Quotes

“People are gonna look up to me because I'm young, black, and female.”

“In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.”

Source : Al Roker (2000). “Don't Make Me Stop this Car!: Adventures in Fatherhood”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

“Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?”

“The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.”

“One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction...”

Source : Clay Shirky (2008). “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations”, p.186, Penguin

“regulation is useful and proper, when aimed at the prevention of fraud or contrivance, manifestly injurious to other kinds of production, or to the public safety, and not at prescribing the nature of the products and the methods of fabrication.”

“Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.”

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“Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness.”

“If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.”

“Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?”