Monica Edwards Quotes

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

Monica Edwards

• Humanity
• Safety
• Overflow
• Purring
• Feline

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• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

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• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
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• I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
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• Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

  

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• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
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• I've been a supporter of green initiatives for years. I've been paying more and more attention to it, you know, with three kids. I thought it was tragic when the Kyoto Protocol was killed by the U.S. It was sort of a call to action.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
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• I joke, but only half joke, that if you show up in an American hospital missing a finger, no one will believe you until they get a CAT scan, MRI and orthopedic consult.

  

  Abraham Verghese
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• By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody, I have some money 'cause I just got paid. How I wish I had someone to talk to, I'm in an awful way.

  

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• The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone, but I never had yours I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door

  

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• Men learn to call pain 'glory'; women learn to call the police.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.

  

  Antonin Artaud
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• When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.

  

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• I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

  

  Clive James
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• Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.

  

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• When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

  

  Martha Stewart
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• In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

  

  Brad Wenstrup
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• The energy behind Mr. Trump is just off the charts. This is a rank and file movement that you're seeing, with massive turnouts from New Hampshire down to Mississippi, Alabama. I mean, his supporters are representative of the entire country.

  

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• At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father’s business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I've woven them a garment that's prepared out of poor words, those that I overheard, and will hold fast to every word and glance all of my days, even in new mischance, and if a gag should bind my tortured mouth, through which a hundred million people shout, then let them pray for me, as I do pray for them, this eve of my remembrance day.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
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• When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.

  

  Graham Nash
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• Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

  

  Monica Edwards
  • Humanity
  • Safety
  • Overflow