“Telenovelas have been part of my world since childhood, I always felt like I had to be something that I wasn't.” Quote by Genesis Rodriguez
“My idea in Half the Kingdom was simply, or not so simply perhaps, that medical science has given us twenty extra years of life. Those twenty extra years - one is grateful for them, one is happy, but they also give you ten or twenty years more of losing your faculties. That is actually the origin of my notion. Once you live longer than you're supposed to live, things go dreadfully wrong. But nevertheless, you're not dead.” GivingLosingGratefulMedicalExtras Author:Lore Segal
“There's that wonderful line in Measure for Measure. I forget which of the characters has committed adultery and is going to die. He looks at his hand and says, "How could this die?" That's the joke. I've always thought, and this is nothing new, that we don't really believe we die. I think you're going to die, because I know that's what happens but I can't imagine I'm going to die.” ThinkingBelieveCharacterForgetImagineWonderfulJokesCommittedAdultery Author:Lore Segal
“I dare say you believe I'm going to die. I bet you don't believe you're going to die. You know it, but you don't believe it. Imaginatively, I think we find it impossible to believe we don't exist.” ThinkingBelieveImpossibleDare Author:Lore Segal
“As soon as you move through the hospital doors you've removed yourself from real life. From the world we know. It's an alien world. Just enter those gates and you are in alien territory.” WorldRealMovingReal LifeAliensGates Author:Lore Segal
“I imagine witches to be people who sit around like my witty grandmother, people who are injustice collectors or humiliation collectors. I choose to imagine that's what a witch is. The reason witches are so evil is because they're so unhappy and so hurt.” PeopleReasonEvilHurtImagineInjusticeWittyUnhappyGrandmotherWitchImagine ThatHumiliation Author:Lore Segal
“Owning your curves means being confident - actually being confident - in your own skin. Growing up was tricky for me, it was so hard to shop with all of my friends and not being able to fit into the tiny clothes they were wearing.” MeanGrowing UpFitSkinsTrickyBe Confident Author:Meghan Trainor
“I went from being a casual songwriter who wore big sweatshirts and leggings every day to someone telling me I was going to be a pop star who's on camera every day. I didn't know a lot about fashion because I had kind of given up on my relationship with clothes. Now, I have a stylist that's shown me the right places I can show off my body - but I still stick to my comfort zone in fittings. I want to be covered and I think I can be sexy fully covered. That learning process has been helping me with my confidence. And I follow actresses and singers who post on social media about being confident.” ThinkingKindHelpingFashionComfortSocial MediaSexyZoneComfort ZoneLearning ProcessShowing OffBe Confident Author:Meghan Trainor
“I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a lot of truths. Just as a side point, for instance, we always think the bad guys in fairy tales are the stepmothers, who are witches. But where are the fathers when the witches are killing and mishandling their children? Away. They are on a business trip. They are hunting, they are away. Wow, you know! No one says the fathers are the bad guys! It's one of the things you don't say. But my goodness, where are they?” ThinkingChildrenGuyFatherGoodnessKillingFairyWitchHuntingFairy TaleTranslations Author:Lore Segal
“It's an easier task to imagine someone's interior world when you feel quite distanced from them. In the same way that I find writing about Australia easier than writing about the UK because I don't have the reality of it in front of me to get me bogged down in trying to be exact.” WorldWritingTryingRealityImagine Author:Evie Wyld