"Any woman can face the world alone, but……" — N.K. Jemisin
"Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?"
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29 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin
N.K. Jemisin has 29 quotes on this site.
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If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that…
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There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
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But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.
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There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.
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I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence…
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It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of…
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We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
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Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.
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You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent…
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And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this…
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But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little…
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He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where…
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
— Dido Armstrong
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
— Jane Austen
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
— Richard Avedon
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
— Teresa of Avila
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
— Diane Ackerman
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
— Michelle Bachelet
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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