Absurd Quote by Zadie Smith Download Open image “The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.” — Zadie Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Creativity Idea Ideas Motherhood Threat
“For many women,’ she said, ‘having a child is their central experience of creativity, and yet the child will never remain a created object;… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“While motherhood is an incredible vocation, it has no more inherent worth than a childless woman simply being who she is, to the utmost… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Motherhood in all its guises and permutations is more art than science. — Melinda M Marshall Copy Share Image
I think the art world is one of the last bastions of this kind of sexism where there is a mythology about a woman… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
People have this idea of motherhood, the same way they have an idea of women as we reach a certain age. — Janelle James Copy Share Image
I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and woman make a baby” mode as the truest path to motherhood is, when you think about it, rather odd. Witnessing my daughter’s birth as, essentially, a bystander, I promise I’m not less of a mother to her. I’m… — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share
Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives. — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
“The great irony of motherhood is that while you sometimes long for someone else to be in charge, it is next to impossible to… — Rachel Balducci Copy Share Image
- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
