Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
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Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
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It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
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When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.
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I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.
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We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.
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The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
