#thin

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#feminist #hero #i #i write #know

Well, love motivates me in everything I do. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#i #i do #love #me #motivates

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again. ↗

— Joan Didion

#anybody #feels #good #good parent #i

I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. ↗

— Mary Docter

#been #haven #i #know #lot

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#before #entire #expectations #five #four

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#been #cost #i #kids #like

Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it. ↗

— Jack Vance

#anything #big #enjoy #give #guess

You can't be what you don't see. I didn't think about being a doctor. I didn't even think about being a clerk in a store, I'd never seen a black clerk in a clothing store. ↗

— Joycelyn Elders

#being #black #clerk #clothing #doctor

Sometimes, in certain stories, I think we know at the outset essentially what the tone is going to be, or it becomes important that we're groping toward some kind of story with a certain kind of tone that we both get somehow. But I don't think how that's combined with other elements is ever in any way overtly discussed. ↗

— Joel Coen

#becomes #both #certain #combined #discussed

Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#being #down #had #i #i think