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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
How true is that? We are our own friends and our own worst enemies, no?
More strength to all you ladies out there 🙂
I love this quote so much! And sadly I think it’s a quote that people nowadays need to hear now more than ever.
Here’s a link to the book the quotes come from:
http://sarah.newcastleweb.net/wordpress/the-evolutionary-journey-of-woman/
“Women require a figure of the the divine in female form…This figure would be the female archetype of the Self. This is an omega point of development; actual, imagined or intuited, that represents the full potential of the divine, human embodiment in the form of woman”.
“As the emergence of feminist consciousness required and inspired women…This new consciousness calls us to embody and extend to others the highest values available to us – the values of universal care and justice for all humanity and for the ecosystem…”.
Both taken from Dr. Sarah Nicholson’s “The Evolutionary Journey of Woman: from the Goddess to Integral Feminism”. This is actually a self-awakening, self-realization for a maturing woman like me.
“Fiction is not a dream. nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.”
Margaret Culkin Banning
“Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else… Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who’s here? Who’s coming?…” Eudora Welty
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
Flannery O’Connor
“A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.” Sidney Smith
“One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places, to explore.”
Anne Lamott
“I don’t write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn’t work, or what simply is not alive.”
Susan Sontag
“It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and write it sentence by sentence — no first draft. I can’t write five words but that I can change seven.” Dorothy Parker
“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” Colette
“Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn’t work, throw it away. It’s a nice feeling, and you don’t want to be cluttered with the corpses of poems and stories which have everything in them except the life they need.” Helen Dunmore
‘It may not look like pleasure, because the difficulties can make me morose and distracted, but that’s what it is – the pleasure of telling the story I mean to tell as wholly as I can tell it, of finding out in fact what the story is, by working around the different ways of telling it.’ Alice Munro.
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” Flannery O’Connor
“If we had to say what writing is, we would describe it essentially as an act of courage. ” Cynthia Ozick
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Maya Angelou
that’ll do for now 🙂
Maya Angelou
“Continue And by doing so, you and all your dreams will be able to to continue… Eternally.
Reminder to never give up!
“Here I am
and there is my body
dancing on glass
In accident time where there are no accidents”
-Sarah Kane
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” – Erma Bombeck
“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”
― Anne Lamott
“The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.”
― Anne Lamott
I find Lamott to be quite eloquent at expressing the loveliness of life.
Louise Erdrich “I’ve made my choice, I sometimes think: Wonderful children instead of hard liquor.”
Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly. (1.1-2). From a Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
“Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” Doris Lessing
“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
― George Eliot
It speaks for itself.
A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Where Edward in the name of wonder (said he) did you pick up this unmeaning Gibberish! You have been studying Novels I suspect. (Jane Austen, Love and Freindship [sic])
Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution (Jane Austen, Sanditon)
Read a wise book and lay its balm on your soul. (Marion Halligan, The fog garden)
‘There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.’ Edith Wharton
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy” – I love this quote by Anne Frank so much that I have it on a necklace. Humbling, optimistic, graceful, wise…I don’t think I’ve ever read anything so succinct with greater transformative power.
“You are not the problem but fashion designers, who are limiting themselves creatively.” ― Gloria D. Gonsalves
I tell this to myself and whoever cares to listen. Whatever shape, colour, background you are, we all are uniquely different.Being handsome or beautiful is not special. But being unique is something special.
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ― Maya Angelou
It is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers. It is you, not we, who have always been the children of the gods. –Margaret Atwood
“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.” – Sylvia Plath
I have this taped to my bulletin board for motivation
“In a country that doesn’t discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.” – Lionel Shriver
Emily Bronte: January 2nd 1846
“No coward soul is mine…No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere ..”
and from my verse ‘In Memory of Emily Bronte’
“Reclusive visionary,
Mystical, passionate scribe,
Decipherer
Of the troubled human soul….
Your haunting legacy lives on”
All of us looking for an answer:
“There ain’t no answer. There ain’t going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.” Gertrude Stein.
So stop looking for an answer from the outside and consider the answer from within…
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath
My favorite quote (or at least one of them) as it sums me up and where I am now as a writer
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems
to the absurdity of not writing poems.
– Wisława Szymborska
“People living deeply have no fear of death.” ― Anaïs Nin.
“This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it.” – Natalie Goldberg
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” Emily Dickinson
‘I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! but then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.’ Hilary Mantel
“There was always that one kid against the fence. How could the rest of us feel okay if there wasn’t? If it was a guy, there was probably a trumpet case at his feet and he wore strangely scuffed shoes, because he avoided the foot traffic on sidewalks and walked instead through weedy lots with dogs yipping at him.” Anne Lamott
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
I know this is from one of her books, but I like the point JK is making with this line.
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” ― J.K. Rowling. This quote inspired me to stop hiding my writing and actually try to do something with it.
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron.
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person.” – Norah Ephron.
(I like Norah Ephron!)
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. – Oprah Winfrey.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
— Dorothy Parker
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ~ Anaïs Nin. This quote, to me, simply yet poignantly reveals a writer’s soul and mindset.
“I would like to be remembered as someone that did the best she could with the talents she had.” -J.K Rowling
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
The life of the average woman was a succession of childbirths. She married at nineteen and had fifteen or eighteen children by the time she was thirty; for twins abounded. Thus the British Empire came into existence; Virginia Woolf, Orlando.
This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force. Dorothy Parker reviewing “The House at Pooh Corner”
“To say, ‘Well, I write when I really get into it’ is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something.” Erma Bombeck
I like this quote because I often feel I must “feel like it” in order to write, when the truth is, I come up with my best work when I just start writing.
That’s good to hear – “I come up with my best work when I just start writing”! Thank you Michele. – Anora McG.
“He was a man too busy to flush toilets.”
― Mona Simpson, A Regular Guy
The title of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiography :-
” Why be happy, when you can be normal?”.
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
One of my favorite quotes is by Brene’ Brown.
“Don’t try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.” – Brene’ Brown
Brene Brown is brilliant. Thank you for bringing her into this. Her work with understanding shame is so important. – Anora McGaha
This is my favourite quote taken from Sunday Times Culture mag interview today… ‘I like to know one thing really well, rather than to know a lot shallowly’ – Donna Tartt, Novelist
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou.
‘Older writers are sometimes punished on account of becoming old and the supposition that the energy, the galloping horses of the imagination, are not in evidence. They are.’
-Edna O’Brien (2013)
Writing is something that happens to us. . .We don’t “do” writing. We are each a “place” on the earth where from time to time writing happens. How lucky to be chosen to be that place. ~ Marilyn Krysl
I absolutely love this one by Toni Morrison because it speaks so directly to me right now as I struggle with my first novel that has long been something I’ve wanted to exist…
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Two, from Cheryl Strayed:
“Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don’t know what it is yet.”
and
“How many women wrote beautiful novels and stories and poems and essays and plays and scripts and songs in spite of all the crap they endured. How many of them didn’t collapse in a heap of “I could have been better than this” and instead went right ahead and became better than anyone would have predicted or allowed them to be. The unifying theme is resilience and faith. The unifying theme is being a warrior and a motherfucker. It is not fragility. It’s strength. It’s nerve. And “if your Nerve, deny you –,” as Emily Dickinson wrote, “go above your Nerve.” Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.”
love this
Zombies are not good on skates. Margaret Atwood at the Edingburgh Book Festival 250813
“Think of this – that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.”
~ A.S. Byatt, Possession
Oh, I loved that!! that is how I felt when I read little women at age 12…
By Dorothy Parker: “If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end to end I would not be at all surprised” Meow!!!
“Am I a cuttlefish, good only for squirting ink?”
Robin Hyde, 1906-1939, New Zealand journalist and author
I’d like to offer a slightly different kind of quote if it’s okay.
From Caroline Leavitt’s bestselling novel “Pictures of You.”
It is a father looking at his sleeping son.
“Without him, he might dissolve into a thousand pieces. You breathe, I breathe, he thought.”
Caroline keeps going from the father’s girlfriend’s perspective.
“Charlie reached over and stroked Sam’s hair, so gently that it made Isabelle swallow hard.”
For me, “You breathe, I breathe” so perfectly articulates what being a parent does to the human soul. In the second sentence when she chooses the beat of swallowing hard when witnessing a gentle touch, I viscerally experience this again from the outside.
There are also, of course, quotes about writing as a woman that wallpaper my mind and reinforce my heart, passion, and ethic. I enjoyed all of the ones above. One I like from a man is:
“Never put a period where God put a comma.” -Freddy Adu
Love this question. Thank you.
~MM
Too many quotes to choose from, but this is a current favourite:
“Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.”
Jane Austen, Persuasion
A wonderful point about the historical canon of the arts being almost entirely male. Women must forge their own history, since they’ve been written out of the recognized one.
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” ~Georgia O’Keeffe
“I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~Maya Angelou
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ~Gloria Steinem
These are great–especially Steinem! So true!
“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.” Audre Lorde
I believe this captures the essence of being a writer. Everyone isn’t going to “get” what we’re saying but as writers we must push through and keep going.
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice. Fabulous.
Been thinking about this one again recently:
“Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.” — Joanna Russ
I love Joanna Russ! Her character, Alyx, is one of my favorite fictional characters! (Picnic in Paradise or Adventures of Alyx.)
Most quotes by Maya Angelou; I love this one: “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
I have about a million, but I’ll give five here 🙂
1. The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue. – Dorothy Parker
2. Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. – Sylvia Plath
3. You’re not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you. ― Meg Cabot
4. I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. ― Jane Austen
5. Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. — Virginia Woolf
what a great wee selection 🙂
“The beginning is always today” Mary Shelley
“You are extraordinary within your limits but your limits are extraordinary” Gertrude Stein
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think” Harper Lee
“I ask the support of no one, neither to kill someone for me, gather a bouquet, correct a proof, nor to go with me to the theater. I go there on my own, as a man, by choice; and when I want flowers, I go on foot, by myself, to the Alps”
(Quote by George Sand – Controversial novelist of her time; she sometimes dressed in men’s clothes – 1804 – 1876)
Love her quote because she considers herself equal to a man, asks nothing of no one, she has no expectations. She makes her own decisions and chooses to be self-reliant. This is very much who Michelle B. Assor is herself.
Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
~Virginia Woolf
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
-Zora Neale Hurston
If you can’t say something nice, come sit next to me. – Dorothy Parker
Gotta love Dorothy.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
Sylvia Plath
“I’d officially entered terra incognita, that blank, wide-open space on the edge of old maps where cartographers wrote “Here Be Dragons.” – from Karen Karbo’s piece in the anthology Because I Love Her: 34 Women Writers Reflect on the Mother-Daughter Bond
I love this quote because it so aptly describes the uncharted territory that comes with motherhood.
I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.
Anais Nin, diary, Feb. 1954
“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win” – To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee.
Just one of hundreds from the novel – amazing writer, amazing book. I first read it when I was 14 years old and have read it a dozen times or more since. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, this book speaks of what it is to be human, and the endless struggle for meaning in a world that can seem insanely lost.
“I’m tired of your stupid war. End it.” Lois McMaster Bujold, *Barrayar*
“Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere – be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Thanks for including this here. I love Betty Smith and had forgotten why! Must go and dig out all her books from under the bed and settle back for a good long read! Thank You!
Tell all of the stories.
–Chimamanda Adichie
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. -Audre Lorde
About three things I was absolutely positive
First Edward was a vampire
Second there was a part of him, and I didn’t know how dominant that part may be-that thirsted for my blood
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
Twilight-Stephanie Meyer
“When people ask what you do, tell them you’re a writer. Put yourself on the line. Make a commitment.” — Janet Evanovich
I’ve known so many women – myself included – with a love and passion for writing, that won’t commit. And without commitment, nothing happens.
“I write the things we don’t want to say out loud.” A.M. Homes
“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?” ― Rachel Carson
Round two:
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”
[Lillian Smith]
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.”
[Freya Stark]
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
[Susan Sontag]
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
[Ayn Rand]
“You are never stronger…than when you land on the other side of despair.”
[Zadie Smith]
“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
[Virginia Woolf]
“I love bright words, words up and singing early.”
[Elinor Wylie]
“It’s not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
[Agnes Repplier]
“Why, to hear Betsy Bobbet talk about wimmin’s throwin’ their modesty away, you would think if they ever went to the political pole, they would have to take their dignity and modesty and throw ’em against the pole, and go without any all the rest of their lives.”
[Marietta Holley]
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
[Anne Frank]
“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
[Nancy Willard]
“Never let a problem to be solved become more important than the person to be loved.”
[Barbara Johnson]
“Writing. Love is writing.”
[Hilda Doolittle]
“In order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn.”
[Octavia Butler]
“The beginning is always today.”
[Mary Shelley]
“War is what happens when language fails.”
[Margaret Atwood]
“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”
[Charlotte Bronte]
“When nothing is sure, everything is possible.”
[Margaret Drabble]
“If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”
[Toni Morrison]
Fran Lebowitz
“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
— Fran Lebowitz
There are so many it is hard to choose but Dorothy Parker’s wit needs to be in there somewhere so here are a few of my favourites of hers I have collected:
“Beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes clear to the bone”
“I’ve don’t know much about being a millionaire but I’ll bet I’d be a darling at it”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity”
“I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true”
“Don’t look at me in that tone of voice”
And a last one:
“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment”
I have so many favorite quotes from women writers, I keep a running list of quotes in a document, so I’ll pull out a bunch of ones that I love:
“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
[Anne Carson]
“If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you’re on the right track.”
[Clarisa Pinkola Estés]
“While it is useful to make bridges even to those groups one does not belong to, and it is important to try and be kind, it is also imperative…to not believe too deeply that if one acts just right, if one manages to tie down all the itches and twitches of the wildish criatura, that one can actually pass for a nice, restrained, and demure lady-woman…Then instead of a vital woman you have a nice woman who is de-clawed…No, it is better, more graceful, and far more soulful to just be what and as you are and let the other creatures be what they are too.”
[Clarisa Pinkola Estés]
When seeking guidance, don’t ever listen to the tiny-hearted. Be kind to them, heap them with blessing, cajole them, but do not follow their advice.
[Clarisa Pinkola Estés]
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
[Maya Angelou]
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
[Mary Anne Radmacher]
“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.”
[Anne Lamott]
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”
[Maya Angelou]
“Not only is another world possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
[Arundhati Roy]
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a door mat or a prostitute.”
[Rebecca West] 1913
“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons…but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”
[Gloria Steinem]
He could hardly guess that the solemn, cubic, dense, pompous house, which sat like a hat amidst its green and geometric surroundings, would end up full of protuberances and incrustations, of twisted staircases that led to empty spaces, of turrets, or small windows and could not be opened, doors hanging in midair, crooked hallways, and portholes that linked the living quarters so that people could communicate during the siesta, all of which were Clara’s inspiration.”
[Isabel Allende]
“When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.”
[Pamela Ribon]
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”
[Lillian Smith]
Thank you so much!
“Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.” – Anne Carson
‘When a woman tells the truth, she is creating the possibility for more truth around her’ – Adrienne Rich
“Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Roald Dahl
Hi Cassie 😉 Thank you so much for your quotes…Do you have any good ones from women writers? 😉
“Writing isn’t about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.”
― Stephen King, On Writing
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.” Frederick Douglass
So many people claim to be true to themselves but are ultimately more concerned with what other people think about them never realizing that the two do not go hand in hand.
When you are wounded and bleeding you don’t necessarily need a long term commitment…all you simply want is for someone to help you hold it together…until you get it together. —CDJ (@ChloeandMax1)
When you are wounded and bleeding you don’t necessarily need a long term commitment…all you simply want is for someone to help you hold it together…until you get it together. –CDJ (Book to be released on Labor Day 2013 @ChloeandMax1)
‘Writing from a female point of view seems to be generally regarded as something more like writing from the perspective of a deer: you might get points for novelty, but it’d be impossible to get right, and who really wants to hear a deer narrate a story, anyway?’–Jennifer duBois
Only art can connect imagination and reality. It is a map to all that surrounds us. -Marialena Carr http://bit.ly/1eszPaZ