Hejsa Christensen Quotes

#1. Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Kiki Smith

#2. Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.

Karen Salmansohn

#3. In this place a mind was at work to negate the image of a free and intact man. It intended to rely on man power in the same way that it had relied on horsepower. It wanted units to be equal and divisable, and for that purpose man had to be destroyed as the horse had already been destroyed.

Ernst Junger

#4. The real strong have no need to prove it to the phonies.

Charles Manson

#5. History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

William H. Hastie

#6. I recall a most ingenious piece in a Wisconsin quarterly some years ago in which 'The Recognitions' ' debt to 'Ulysses' was established in such minute detail I was doubtful of my own firm recollection of never having read 'Ulysses.

William Gaddis

#7. The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Desmond Tutu

#8. I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.

Caroline Kennedy

#9. I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

Pearl Bailey

#10. Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

Paul Hoffman

#11. At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, walls of James Patterson thrillers, and a throne from about a thousand copies of something called The Five Habits of Highly Aggressive Women.

Rick Riordan

#12. The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

Jerry Spinelli

#13. she day-dreamed about dying.

Gillian Flynn

#14. When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

Oprah Winfrey

#15. I love a really good storyline.

Jim Broadbent