Deserea Kogawa Quotes & Sayings

I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"
Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness. — Sylvia Plath

The course of our lives is determined by how we react
what we decide and what we do
at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness. — Daisaku Ikeda

What would happen if we withdrew? ... After the enormous expenditure which we have incurred in freeing this country from the withering despotism of the Turk, to hand it back to anarchy and confusion, and to take no responsibility for its development would be an act of folly and quite indefensible. — Janet Wallach

Why do you have a blanket in your car?"
"In case I need it."
"Have you ever had sex on it?" I asked, staring at the soft plush material with narrowing eyes.
Ethan laughed, "Of course I have."
"Oh, I said, holding the material further away.
"It's my sex blanket. Whenever I'm int he mood, I just lay it on the ground, take off my clothes, and the ladies line up. — M.K. Schiller

Mitch stared at where her hand lay on Blake's crotch and appreciated that his friend didn't comment.

"Please tell me I don't have my hand some place inappropriate." Alana's voice broke. — Eden Summers

This is why I came back ... Because you're you, and I couldn't stay away from you."
... "I'm glad you did, because I wasn't sure how I was going to be able to stay away from you. — Linda Kage

Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place.
Naughty-naughty" Twinkle said.
Oh shut up!" Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. "Why don't you grow up? — Diana Wynne Jones

Every problem is the result of a previous solution. — Stephen Discher

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute. — Ian Anderson

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say. — James Howe