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“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”
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“There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.”
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“I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.”
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“I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing my hands, cackling, "The dad is really going to take it on the chin in this one!" Not in terms of any given story, and certainly not in terms of the collection as a whole.”
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“I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.”
Source : Jerome Rothenberg, Diane Rothenberg (2016). “Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics”, p.484, Univ of California Press
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“If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.”
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“Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.”
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“I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.”
Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
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“Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.”
Source : Max Weber, Hans Gerth (1991). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.84, Psychology Press
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“Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.”
Source : Samuel Lover (1844). “Songs and Ballads”, p.7
