Solicitation Letter Quotes & Sayings

Years ago in 1959 when Dellinger was already an editor on Liberation (then an anarchist-pacifist magazine, of worthy but not very readable articles in more or less vegetarian prose) Mailer had submitted a piece, after some solicitation, on the contrast between real obscenity in advertising, and alleged obscenity in four-letter words. The piece was no irreplaceable work of prose, and in fact was eventually inserted quietly into his book, Advertisements for Myself, but it created difficulty for the editorial board at Liberation, since there was a four-letter word he had used to make his point, the palpable four-letter word which signifies a woman's most definitive organ: these editorial anarchists were decorous; they were ready to overthrow society and replace it with a communion of pacifistic men free of all laws, but they were not ready to print cunt. — Norman Mailer

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge. — Ken Burns

Me giving my mom romantic advice is kind of like a goldfish giving a snail advice on how to fly.
-Will Grayson (pg. 66) — David Levithan

If you want to experiment, do something temporary. — Andy Garcia

A true love can cross through your legacy and heritage. — M.F. Moonzajer

I don't write constantly; it's two serials and a novel a year. — Umera Ahmad

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual. — Gloria Steinem

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery. — George Washington

No one ever spoke above a whisper in the staff lounge, but I felt the need to shush her anyway. I gave her my best librarian frown and put one finger to my lips. It works every time. We librarians are like practitioners of Jedi mind-control when it comes to shushing. — Nick Pageant

All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness. — Deepak Chopra

When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch. — Ann Coulter