Bonnie Greer Quotes

#1. I changed into a quiet girl, with an inner life that burned with such ferocity that I had no words to express it.

Bonnie Greer

#2. When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.

Bonnie Greer

#3. I was writing, writing all the time, in my head, looking out at the world.

Bonnie Greer

#4. A smile opened, thin as a paper cut, in the bottom of Flowers's face.

Michael Chabon

#5. Every time my head hit the pillow, I wondered why I had ever left my bed in the first place.

Emily Adrian

#6. A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.

Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#7. She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

Bonnie Greer

#8. The future is in great hands with feminists such as Carla Buzasi, Caroline Criado-Perez, Lucy-Anne Holmes

Bonnie Greer

#9. You can be with somebody and still feel alone.

Paul Stanley

#10. I wake up 5 a.m. some mornings and hear the planes coming in at National Airport and I think they are bombing me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#11. I love playing serious! That's a relief for me. It means something. It sounds dead corny and cheesy, but on a day-to-day basis, you can't just let loose and cry. So as an actress playing those gritty roles, I can play it quite decently.

Lauren Socha

#12. Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

Diablo Cody

#13. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

#14. I've been feminist for most of my life, it is a constantly evolving idea, not something static.

Bonnie Greer

#15. Sometimes, no matter how much you try to forget, the heart has its reasons to remember.

Preeti Shenoy

#16. I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the truth was that I had never put myself forward as a writer, I didn't like the idea of the 'professional writer'; I just wanted to write. But that was not how the world worked...

Bonnie Greer

#17. We live in a very gynophobic society

Bonnie Greer

#18. During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done anything to advance the common weal; but during that time it has protected every abuse and sheltered every privilege.

Joseph Chamberlain

#19. His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#20. We should differentiate between criminals who make violent threats online, and trolls who are just arseholes

Bonnie Greer

#21. There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

Bonnie Greer

#22. Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

Anne Rice

#23. But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.

Claudia Cardinale