“My erotic poetry is not poetry that uses vernacular words. It is a very erotic poetry, but I never use anything, for example, that is not in the dictionary. I don't like to be ugly, I seek out what is beautiful, and if my great search is for freedom and beauty, I can't be vulgar, ordinary.” BeautifulUglyPoetry IsVulgarDictionary Author:Maria Teresa Horta
“Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.” MenPoint Of ViewSexuallyMistreat Author:Maria Teresa Horta
“Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.” ValuesLoyaltyClarityPrize Author:Maria Teresa Horta
“What do I think of Pussy Riot actions? The act can be extremely positive if it is an act to call attention to the fact that things in their country are really bad for women, otherwise it is purely a media event that only obfuscates women's struggle.” ThinkingCountryActionAttentionStruggleRiot Author:Maria Teresa Horta
“People ask me why I am a feminist. Because I am a woman of freedom and equality and it is not possible to have freedom in the world when half of humanity has no rights. Because we are more than half of humanity. There are more women than men. This is not a fight of so-called "minorities."” PeopleMenWorldHumanityFightingFeministAsk Me Author:Maria Teresa Horta
“People ask me almost every day, "Why? You are successful, you have kids, you have grandchildren, so why?" Feminist women are seen as unsatisfied. But all women in the world, if they are well aware of inequality, are unsatisfied women. They don't have the same rights as men, and there is no freedom until there is equality between men and women.” PeopleMenWorldKidsSuccessfulMen And WomenFeministInequalityAsk MeGrandchildrenUnsatisfied Author:Maria Teresa Horta
“I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or my experiences. I'm very detailed - it's like a script.” PeopleWritingScrap Author:Tommy Wiseau
“Love is very complex. If a lot of people love each other, the world will be a better place to live. Actually, that's a sentence from my script. Love is also full of electricity - if you do not feel the electricity within your body, then it's not love.” PeopleWorldLove IsElectricity Author:Tommy Wiseau
“Let's face it: people don't have respect for other people. That's the story here. When everyone is respected, then we can all live within magic.” PeopleMagicRespecting Others Author:Tommy Wiseau