Outwrite Quotes & Sayings

I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of. — Shakira

Autism is not something I "have" it's not an add on. This is why I call myself autistic. Not person "with" autism. — Tina J. Richardson

As soon as I was introduced to ice speed skating, I was instantly hooked. I never thought about pursuing skating professionally; I just enjoyed doing it. — Shani Davis

The days went by for him, all different and all the same. The boy was happy, and yet he didn't know that he was happy, exactly: he couldn't remember having been unhappy. If one day as he played at the edge of the forest some talking bird had flown down and asked him: "Do you like your life" he would not have known what to say, but would have asked the bird: "Can you not like it? — Randall Jarrell

Why do I hunger for significant barometers but find myself tethered to banality instead? — Leslie Jamison

Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn't worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys. — Christopher Bram

I used to hurt myself by training all the time. — Troy Dumais

You don't have to take drugs to be happy. You don't have to drink to be happy. You don't have to have people around you who love you to be happy. You don't need anything except the clarity of your own mind. — Frederick Lenz

If you can't run, and the plays in front of you, you just can't get gay. — Jim Palmer

Whether romance existed in him or not, sentimentality had no place at all. — Dorothy Dunnett