quotes about Underdevelopment

“There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no expectation for tomorrow, no contentment. I would rather cook a meal for a man and bring him his slippers and feel myself in the protection of his arms than have all the citations and awards and honors I have received worldwide, including the Ribbon of Legion of Honor and my property and my bank accounts. They mean nothing to me. And I am only one among the millions of sad women like myself.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.”

“The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq.”

“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities? And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?”

Source : Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

“One thing that's happened to me is I've been around a long time and I've played a lot of villains and so forth. I think it had to do with, well one thing is that I looked younger than I was for a long time. Now I think I'm suddenly starting to play people's father.”

“An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community.”

“I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.”

“An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.”

Source : Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

“For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.”

“Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.”

Source : Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.209, Del Rey