Sobelson Quotes & Sayings

I had to fight to be me and get respect, and to carry that stigma, for me, is pride. Carrying the tag of lesbian. I'm not bragging, I'm not preaching, but I don't deny it . I had to face society, the Church, which says damn gay people ... it's absurd. How do you judge someone who has been born that way. I did not study to be a lesbian. Neither was it taught to me. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world. I've never slept with a man. Never. I'm pure, I don't have to be ashamed ... My Gods made me so. — Chavela Vargas

A life not shared is not lived. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change. — Robert Charles Wilson

Just as you dress for the occasion you should undress when reading erotica. — Chloe Thurlow

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back. — Raymond Chandler

Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and it can bring into the field of waking consciousness many drives, emotions and complexes which were creating difficulties in the unconscious. — Roberto Assagioli

I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that. — Ethan Hawke

Starting a new job is always scary, or at least for me it's always scary. It's like the first day of school. — Sean Maher

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Distance is the soul of beauty. — Simone Weil

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark. — Sharon Kay Penman