Maya Soetoro-Ng Quotes
The rich emotional tapestry of being a mother, becoming a mother, connects you to your own mother. I didn't realize how much I'd become her. I pass a mirror, and am surprised by how much I look like her.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
-
When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
-
The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
-
I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
-
Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
-
If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
-
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
-
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
-
I did two or three plays every summer.
-
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
-
The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
-
My brother is really, really slow.
-
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
-
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
-
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
-
My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
-
I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
-
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
-
The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
-
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
-
I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field.
-
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
-
The wise with hope support the pains of life.
-
The rich emotional tapestry of being a mother, becoming a mother, connects you to your own mother. I didn't realize how much I'd become her. I pass a mirror, and am surprised by how much I look like her.
