Karin Slaughter Quotes
There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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Go West, young man.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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Never regret what you don't write.
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I'm doing activations with companies you would never think of. Not to say this in a braggadocious way, but I'm not putting myself in a box. The only thing that goes in a box is Chinese food and your sneakers - not me.
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Criticism can be wonderful, especially in making connections in an interpretive way. But by applying theories randomly, it's an interesting exercise, but I don't think it illuminates the literature.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
