Rachel Cusk An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally. – Rachel Cusk Body Quotes Culturally Quotes Disgust Quotes Disorder Quotes Disseminated Quotes Eating Quotes Epidemic Quotes Female Quotes Jointly Quotes Love Quotes Marketed Quotes Proposition Quotes Suggests Quotes Unacceptability Quotes There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it’s a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform. Writing is a discipline: it’s almost all about holding back.
Preston Brooks I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account. – Preston Brooks
Amy Ray When people say, ‘Nothing’s coming to me,’ they usually don’t like what’s coming to them. – Amy Ray
Sonya Deville You can be happy with work, you can be happy in other facets of life, but if you’re not happy in your personal life, and you’re not loving open and honestly, it sucks. – Sonya Deville
John Collison I think there is this very nice, if at times dangerous, untethered optimism that exists in Silicon Valley. – John Collison
Jim Webb When my father went back into the military in 1947 and was gone for 3-1/2 years, my mother was 24 years old with four kids in a town she didn’t know that well with no military services available, no family services available through the military, and that was the norm. – Jim Webb
Poo Bear Pop music – deriving from the word ‘popular’ – for me, it’s just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people. – Poo Bear
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