Community Quote by Nicole Brossard Download Open image “To write, you must first belong to yourself.” — Nicole Brossard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Firsts Writing
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, first and foremost, you must write. If you write, you're a writer. Period. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I always tell myself, 'you can write anything, but first you have to write something'.” — Kevan Duke Copy Share Image
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the… — Amy Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“Then I stop existing. She is talking, talking, takes off who knows where, she says it all starts over, speech, paths, butterflies and that… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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