#about

Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas? ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#am #children #course #day #every

I spend about a year between novels. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#between #i #novels #spend #year

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#adventure #answers #any #close #home

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#anything #easier #everybody #going #hard

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#also #am #boy #definitely #doing

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#aggressive #anxious #arrogant #his #man

I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#harriet #i #probably #read #spy

I started to get bored with that stuff about only drawing men and I've taken it out of the slideshow. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#bored #drawing #get #i #men

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#american #american dream #dream #dreams #listening

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#books #closet #come #date #full