Incommoding Quotes & Sayings

The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck — Laxmi Hariharan

So you're positive the killer is a man."
"Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don't cut out other women's hearts."
"We can. — Chris Bohjalian

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well. — Greg Rucka

Are those the only options? Nothing or forever? — Sarah Dessen

The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands ... is ... the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed. — Bartolome De Las Casas

I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching. — Pauly Shore

Cruelty is the only sin. — Ellen Glasgow

That which is inherent in man is his virtue. — Mahatma Gandhi

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them. — Joe Louis