Elizabeth McCracken Vilnius was once known as ‘The Jerusalem of Lithuania’ because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship. – Elizabeth McCracken Center Quotes Century Quotes Houses Quotes Jerusalem Quotes Lithuania Quotes Prayer Quotes Scholars Quotes Scholarship Quotes Vilnius Quotes Yiddishlanguage Quotes A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it’s an heirloom, and it’s also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you. I like seeing my physical progress through a volume, particularly if it’s a big book.
Callie Khouri The movie I’ve watched a million times is ‘A Face in the Crowd,’ directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this movie, I guess I was in my early 20s. I’d never heard of it, and somebody told me about it, and I watched it and was just completely jaw-droppingly shocked at how current it was. – Callie Khouri
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Some people ask, ‘Why the word ‘feminist’? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?’ Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general – but to choose to use the vague expression ‘human rights’ is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Letitia James Children of domestic violence, of course, suffer terrible consequences. – Letitia James
Iman Shumpert There are certain guys that are obviously a lot more talented than myself and a lot of the other players in the league, but… once you gotta play against me, all that’s out the window. – Iman Shumpert
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