Author Quotes

We don't all have to believe in the same feminism. Feminism can be pluralistic so long as we respect the different feminisms we carry with us, so long as we give enough of a damn to try to minimize the fractures among us. Feminism will better succeed with collective effort, but feminist success can also rise out of personal conduct.

Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay
Indian time conveys an old grasp of time and life, perceived and experienced collectively by Indian people.... From the edge of Indian time overlooking infinity, there is acute perception and perspective.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

She was one of those children who cannot help behaving well.

To callow wings no flight is too high to attempt. At sixteen all things are possible.

In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

They say that there is no reality before it has been given shape by words rules regulations. They say that in what concerns them everything has to be remade starting from basic principles. They say that in the first place the vocabulary of every language is to be examined, modified, turned upside down, that every word must be screened.

Old and ruined, all rotted and broken up These plum trees function gorgeously A few days every year In a way nobody else does.

Philip Whalen
Philip Whalen
Giving up her home had been a much greater wrench than she had expected.... She had a curious sense of her own roots twined around the house, as she had once seen a tree's roots around an old shrine. In time the roots had grown into every crevice until shrine and tree were one indestructible entity.

When you collaborate with other people, you tend to regard your own individual contribution as the most important.

Yang Jiang
Yang Jiang
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of one's thought is not a value, only a common practice.

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological,

This piercing cold I feel:
my dead wife's comb, in our bedroom
under my heel...

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.

Louise Closser Hale
Louise Closser Hale
Don't think too small about what God could do in your life-be prepared for God to do a big thing.

Don't forget that even our most obscene vices nearly always bear the seal of sullen greatness.

In working on any one problem, such as higher minimum wages, so many other issues come into play, such as some businesses possibly closing down, thus creating fewer jobs and more unemployment and incentivizing companies to import more goods from abroad, which leads to even less employment at home, and so on.

Philip Kotler
Philip Kotler
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.

What linked them was not only the closeness they'd felt as children, but also the fear of losing that closeness.

A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

They are emotional gluttons, both of them. They gobbled up every sensation they could extract from marriage, and now they are seeing if separation won't provide them with a few more.

Margaret Kennedy
Margaret Kennedy
Kindly recall that variation is not the same as deformity.

A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.