Oskaras Vaildas Quotes & Sayings

Only by remembering to say 'no' will the women of 21st century regain their voice and remember their power. 'No' is the most important word in a woman's dialectic arsenal, and it is the one word that our employers, our leaders, and quite often, the men in our lives would do anything to prevent us from saying. No, we will not serve. No, we will not settle for the dirty work, the low-paid work, the unpaid work. No, we will not stay late at the office, look after the kids, sort out the shopping. We refuse to fit the enormity of our passion, our creativity, and our potential into the rigid physical prison laid down for us since we were small children. No. We refuse. We will not buy your clothes and shoes and surgical solutions. No, we will not be beautiful; we will not be good. Most of all, we refuse to be beautiful and good. — Laurie Penny

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Language is the medium of literature, and the state of the language at any time can hardly fail to carry literary consequences. — J.A. Burrow

This is payback, isn't it?" Jim glared at me. "Don't be ridiculous," I told him. "As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge. — Ilona Andrews

Shows should just be able to be shows without hyphenating their lead characters. — George Lopez

Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero. — Paul Gallant

It's frightening because love is unpredictable, emotionally unstable, and uncontainable. — S.A. Wolfe

I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity. — Cindy Sherman

Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core. — Lauren Groff