Shellito Introduction Quotes & Sayings

For many people, the shock of sexual abuse pales before the shock of this mother's statement, "I wish the fuck I never had her." So thoroughly is motherhood sentimentalized that the mother who wishes to be rid of her child is considered a monster. In reality, women have always greeted the burden of motherhood ambivalently, even in the best of circumstances, and many women bear children involuntarily. But the approbrium which attaches to any woman who willing gives up her child is so great that some mothers will keep and mistreat their children rather than admit that they cannot care for them. Sometimes, the revelation of maternal neglect constitutes a plea for outside intervention, signaling the fact that a mother wants to be relieved of the duty to care for her child. — Judith Lewis Herman

I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. — Hugh Hefner

Yeah, you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye." And — J.K. Rowling

I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda. — Brian MacLearn

I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten. — Victor LaValle

I'm not a big traveller. — Patrick Chan

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? — Henry David Thoreau

If you don't know what you want, the chances that you'll get it are extremely low. — Ben Horowitz

Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent — Anthony Steyning

After all, she was fifteen, and Jericho was something ancient like thirty-four or thirty-five. — Suzanne Brockmann

I'm not a conservative of any kind. — Christopher Hitchens

We are all haunted by the lost perfection of the ego that contained everything, and we measure ourselves and our lovers against this standard. We search for a replica in external satisfactions, in food, comfort, sex, or success, but gradually learn, through the process of sublimation, that the best approximation of that lost feeling comes from creative acts that evoke states of being in which self-consciousness is temporarily relinquished. These are the states in which the artist, writer, scientist, or musician, like Freud's da Vinci, dissolves into the act of creation. — Mark Epstein

For most of my career I illustrated books for other people. — Brian Selznick

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form. — Robert Gottlieb