Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Quotes

Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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• I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • World
  • Long
  • Me

• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Revolutions

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Different
  • Death
  • Thought

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I don't watch TV.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Watch
  • TV

• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Stupidity
  • Optimism

• The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Real
  • Law
  • Corruption

• The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Child
  • Beauty

• Word of mouth is the most valuable form of marketing, but you can't buy it. You can only deliver it. And you have to really deliver.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Marketing
  • Mouth

• I'm not surprised by hardly anything anymore.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Anything
  • Surprised
  • Anymore

• I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • You

• If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

  

  Karen Black
  • Daughter
  • Actress
  • Lifestyle

• Honesty is very sexy.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Sexy
  • Honesty
  • Honesty Is

• I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Time
  • World
  • Stop

• I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Trying
  • Song
  • Cute

• Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Work
  • Home
  • Myself

• You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • House
  • Know
  • City

• The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I could not comprehend its tongue; its silence...

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Silence

• There is much to be said for exotic marriages. If your husband is a bore, it takes years longer to discover.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Husband
  • Bores
  • Exotic

• I hurt for my Marines, goodhearted American guys who'd bear these burdens for the rest of their lives. And I mourned for myself. Not in self-pity, but for the kid who'd come to Iraq. He was gone. I did all this in the dark, away from the platoon, because combat command is the loneliest job in the world.

  

  Nathaniel Fick
  • World
  • Kids
  • Guy

• Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

  

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Blood
  • Autobiography
  • Dry