Rachel Cusk What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things. – Rachel Cusk Feminist Quotes Increasingly Quotes Irreconcilable Quotes Live Quotes Marriage Quotes Motherhood Quotes Woman Quotes I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world – obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form. I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material that retains too many connections to life to be approached strictly and aesthetically. A memoir is a risk, a one-off, a bastard child.
Sally Rooney When I’m writing something, everything falls into place. When I’m not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there’s nowhere to put it all. – Sally Rooney
CarEdward de BonoIntelligencePower Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. – Edward de Bono
Allison Schroeder When you start early, and you’re writing for free, there’s a lot of producers that will take advantage of you… It is seared in my brain forever. – Allison Schroeder
MarriagePaul Martin I rise today in support of Bill C-38, the Civil Marriage Act. I rise in support of a Canada in which liberties are safeguarded, rights are protected and the people of this land are treated as equals under the law. – Paul Martin
Edmund MorganEqualityIndependence When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, ‘You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.’ – Edmund Morgan
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