“What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.” HumansChildrenMadeStoriesHappensAgeTodayYoungTermHuman BeingsEmotionTechnologyInformationTelevisionDrivingConnectingYoung AgeMade Up StoriesFamilies Today Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser
“The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do.” MenWritingHumansLittlesBookBodyAbleDifferencesHuman BeingsOfficeMen And WomenDrivingCropsWriting A BookTractorsDifferences Between Man And Woman Author:Erica Jong
“I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.” KnowsWorldWritingHumansKindHas BeensDoneDesirePassionHuman BeingsStrongerDrivingStrongestEngagementStubborn Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“you must not, under any circumstances, allow yourself to hate. Not because your tormentors have not earned it. But if you allow hatred to take root, it would flourish and spread during your years in the camps, driving out everything else, and ultimately corrode and warp your soul. You will no longer be yourself, your identity will be destroyed, all that will remain will be a hysterical, maddened and bedevilled husk of the human being that once was.” IfsYearsHumansSoulHateHuman BeingsIdentityCircumstancesRootsHatredPrisonSpreadDrivingDestroyedYour SoulBeing YourselfCampsHystericalWarp Author:Irina Ratushinskaya