Chicana Feminism Quotes & Sayings

To become wondrously successful and to sustain that success in any profession, one must be willing to relinquish many pleasures and be ready to postpone gratification. — Maya Angelou

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm. — Oscar Wilde

The irritating question they ask us
us being writers
is: "Where do you get your ideas?"
And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly: Abracadabra! — Neil Gaiman

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end. — Neal Ascherson

Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships. — Rob Bell

A person's heart should be what she was judged by, rather than whose blood ran in her veins. — Melanie Dickerson

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present. — E.W. Howe

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it — Raymond Chandler

My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny. — Steve Carell

I would say it was nice to meet you, but I was naked so ... it wasn't. — Samantha Young