Buchi Emecheta Joys Of Motherhood Quotes

#1. For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.

Kate Zambreno

#2. When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.

Carrie Snyder

#3. I was a person full of wishes but without a star.

Shannon A. Thompson

#4. She caught his wrist, stilling the hand on her thigh. Her eyes were a
little desperate. "What do you mean to do?"
"I'd like to show you my way of making love," he said gently.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#5. But eventually, the Elixir of the Soul that had survived wars and the bloody birth of three new countries, was, like most things in the world, trumped by Coca-Cola.

Arundhati Roy

#6. Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.

Tracy Morgan

#7. It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

Tom Watson

#8. The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Randy Wayne White

#9. I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.

Mick Jagger

#10. Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.

Michael Morpurgo

#11. I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

Shel Silverstein

#12. Shakespeare's stories are still very strong. He structured fantastic stories about things that were fundamental to the human being and psyche.

James McAvoy

#13. Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.

William J. Clinton