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“I was always taught that a woman's place was in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. And I'm a firm believer in that.”
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“Kids coming from very difficult economic circumstances in urban areas are in some ways discriminated against in ways that are similar to the way people with intellectual disabilities are discriminated against. People are afraid of them. People sometimes assume that they don't have skills, gifts or abilities to contribute.”
Source : Source: abilitymagazine.com
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“I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.”
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“You think because you face situations not of your making that you exercise no choice? That you are helpless? To the contrary, child. Your whole life has been full of choices. Hiding from a hard truth is a choice. Surrender - even to the inevitable - is a choice. Even in death there is a choice. You may have no control over the time or manner of your death, but you can choose how you face it.”
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“She lived in fear of ifonic endings.”
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“I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others.”
Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”
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“We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is really kind of up in the air.”
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“Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.”
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“I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.”
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“In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.”
Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2005). “The Jane Austen Book Club”, p.213, Penguin
