Rebecca Solnit Quotes
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
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I had set a goal of being a producer by 25.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.
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Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.
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Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'
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Every time you smile, I smile And every time you shine, I'll shine for you.
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Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.
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To the patient, any operation is momentous.
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I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
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I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
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I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
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When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
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I was very anxious when I was writing 'Oscar And Lucinda.' I would take other books off the shelf to check my chapter length was OK.
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I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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Man's got his woman to take his seed He's got the power - oh She's got the need She spends her life through pleasing up her man She feeds him dinner or anything she can. She cries alone at night too often He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed...
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I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.
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The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.
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Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
