Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
Nora Ephron, Wellesley's Class of 1996 commencement speech.
Time
The most important thing, is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Folklorist.
On homelands ...
Homelands don't exist. It's an invention.
What does exist is that place where you were happy.
Susana Fortes, from waiting for robert capa.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Night, when words fade and things come alive.
When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.
When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Yes
You take something from everything. Everywhere has its own riches, it’s important to open yourself to them. Travelling is above all an attitude, a way of accepting new things.
Keren Ann, Singer.
Life
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin… but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid… at last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D’Souza