Swannell John Quotes & Sayings

The time to quit is before you wish you had. — Kimberly K. Jones

It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk? — J.K. Rowling

When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about. — Richard Rodriguez

His lordship and I are ... opposite sides of very different coins. — Emma Jensen

Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever. — Andrew Cohen