quotes about Prom Queen

last updated: November 28, 2023

When I became a feminist, when the movement started in the late sixties, I started writing because I had something urgent to say. My first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, is the product of that urgency.
-- Alix Kates Shulman

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“The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.”
“Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.”
“Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.”
“The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.”
“Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.”
“The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.”

Source : "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.
“That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.”
“Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at workâ€”the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.”

Source : Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.7, Basic Books
“We are the living planet!”
“A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.”