Ann Aguirre Quotes
I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
Quotes to Explore
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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The burden which is well borne becomes light.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
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My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
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These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture.
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I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
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I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
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Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.
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The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
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Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.
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Waiting is one of the great arts.
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From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return.
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I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.
