Autonomy Quote by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“If you're not scared when you are writing you're not working hard enough. You'll be afraid but you have to keep going.”

— M. Molly Backes

I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people…

— Sarah Kay

I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the…

— Mat Johnson

Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.

— Ralph Keyes

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.…

— Gloria Anzaldua

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

the world I create in writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time,…

— John Taylor Gatto

Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice of bride…

— Khaled Hosseini

“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue slacks, smoking…

— Annie Dillard

Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything.

— Gabor Mate

The first step toward maintaining autonomy in any programmed environment is to be aware that there's programming going on. It's as simple as understanding…

— Douglas Rushkoff