Stella Benson Quotes
Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
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We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.
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If I were sure I would pass the physicals, I would be on the next space shuttle to Mars or some other planet. I'll leave the calculations and the navigational tasks to you while I bask in your ingenuity. Find me a place in the capsule and watch me outdo Michael Jackson's moonwalk to the music of the spheres.
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I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.
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Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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The F.B.I. was very happy with the article they produced, which was entitled, "The Black Merchants of Hate," that came out in early 1963. What's significant about that piece is that that became the template for what evolved into the basic narrative structure of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
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Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.
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I you're writing memoir, but it even comes up in fiction. People just assume that you're writing thinly veiled autobiography. And particularly, I think, for people of color, our work is always seen as kind of anthropological artifact regardless. So, there's always going to be that assumption, but even more so in a memoir because often the names aren't even changed. It is easier to verify.
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When Michael Frere came to see Elizabeth about her autobiography All the Dogs of My Life she found him ‘such a boring little man. But it is because we are all growing old, and the bones of our inadequate minds come through the flesh that hid them.’ She hadn’t always found him boring, and Love, one of her best novels, is largely based on their romance.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
