Pustila Quotes & Sayings

Preconceived ideas can sometimes become barriers. — Rocky Bleier

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. — Mignon McLaughlin

In business, there's such a thing as an invaluable person, but no such thing as an indispensable one. — Malcolm Forbes

(He was obviously even less impressed by the guinea pig thing than I realised.) — Polly James

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love
and most of all, an audience! — Edward Abbey

They [heterosexual cis women] are accepted in the straight mainstream way more readily than I [trans woman] will ever be. But they are marginalized in their day-to-day lives because they are feminine. To argue that they are reinforcing the binary, or the patriarchy or the hegemonic gender system, because they are conventional feminine (as opposed to subversively feminine) essentially implies that they are enabling their own oppression. This is just another variation of the claim that rapists make when they insinuate that the woman in question was 'asking for it' because of what she was wearing or how she behaved. — Julia Serano

There is no art which affords less opportunity to execute expression than photography. Everything is concentrated in a few seconds, when after perhaps an hours seeking, waiting, and hesitation, the photographer sees the realization of his inward vision, and in that moment he has one advantage over most arts - his medium is swift enough to record his momentary inspiration. — Sadakichi Hartmann

My mother looked back at me while my father drove. Her long auburn hair was shimmering in the flickers of light passing through the window from the oncoming highway traffic. Looking at her I admired her flawless, pearlescent skin. Her hazel eyes were flecked with bits of blue and teal like a true Mer. My mother was beautiful, and I looked nothing like her. — Zara Steen

eyebrows rose. "I'm just going to throw this out there, but I'm okay with being taken advantage of. — Laura Thalassa

Music should be some kind of nourishment. — Chuck D

As a twenty-one-year-old college student, Daisy Richmond's answer to the question "If you knew you were going to die in one month, what would you do?" was full of adventure and travel to exotic lands. As a twenty-seven-year-old woman who is faced with a recurrence of breast cancer, her answer is very different. Before I Go is the poignant story of Daisy's journey to navigate the unexpected twists and turns of life, and the painful process of letting go of everything but love. — Colleen Oakley

It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God. — John Piper

While in a vintage restaurant ... the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into. — Margaret Atwood