#bio

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother. ↗

I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be. ↗

— Edmund White

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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

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All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation. ↗