Waldens Quotes & Sayings

A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman's crowning creative experience of a lifetime. — John Stevenson

Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that's out of my control. — Ama H. Vanniarachchy

As for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them. — Donald Norman

The only lost in life is death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The fear of falling is the source of many a folly. It is a disaster. I suppose the wisest thing now is to live it over again, meditate upon it and be edified. It is thus that man distinguishes himself from the ape and rises, from discovery to discovery, towards the light. — Samuel Beckett

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s. — Kevin Patterson