The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
What’s with her?” says the painter. “She’s mad because she’s a woman,” Jon says. This is something I haven’t heard for years,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Are you committed to having a really strange life?" She laughed. "Probably. What do you mean?” — Elizabeth Mckenzie Copy Share Image
The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the… — Iamblichus Copy Share Image
She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“All winter long, I had glimpsed his deeply set habits, his regimented schedule. When I left, he would eat a dinner of… — Ling Ma Copy Share Image
It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture. — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness:… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, small minds seem to take the day. Election fraud. A migratory plague. Less and less surprises us as odd.” — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image