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“Everybody's crazy in some way and everybody's weird, and that kind of makes us all the same in a lot of ways. We're not alone, we just think we are.”

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Mike Herrera

Mike Herrera, born on November 6, 1976, is a talented musician known for his unique musical style and contributions to the rock music scene. more

“Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.”

Years Children Self Night Girl Difficult Black Silence Our Lives Doors Cat Stranger Odd Telephones Handsome One Night Arrivals Greetings Girl Child New Arrivals

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“In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.”

Female Grammar

Author:Nancy Mairs

“Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and in much that we see - work, recreation, sports, home, in magazines, on television. There is absolutely nothing beneficial about gossip - it hurts everyone involved”

World Home Faces Sports Hurt Television Habit Involved Magazines Destructive Gossip Exposed It Hurts Beneficial Absolutely Nothing Recreation

Author:Lori Palatnik

“Donating a kidney to a woman I had never met was the greatest experience of my life. To give for the pure sake of giving brings the deepest joy imaginable. I am profoundly grateful for the opportunity that changed my life in every way”

Way Giving Joy Opportunity Changed Mets Pure Grateful Sake Changed My Life Kidneys

Author:Lori Palatnik

“Every work [of literature] has both a situation and a story. The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say”

Sometimes Stories Literature Situation Emotional Circumstances Insight Plot

Author:Vivian Gornick

“A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.”

“What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge”

Mean Self Pain Pleasure Solitude Independence Self Knowledge

Author:Vivian Gornick

“You are the instrument of your own illumination.”

Instruments Illumination

Author:Vivian Gornick

“The creation of rule is more creative than the destruction of them. Creation demands a higher level of reasoning and draws connections between cause and effect. The best rules are never stable or permanent, but evolve naturally according to context or need.”

Needs Causes Levels Creative Effects Creation Higher Demand Draws Connections Destruction Evolve Permanent Reasoning Stable Cause And Effect Higher Level

Author:Andrea Zittel

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