In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force
Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.
I never change, I simply become more myself.
Novels usually evolve out of 'character. ' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.
Ciara’s new single is a complete rip-off of Usher’s ‘U Got It Bad,’
The secret of poetry is cruelty.
I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.