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“Feminism … I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.' Free to be, if you were a girl—doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Anything you want to be. And if you’re a boy, and you like teaching, you like nursing, you would like to have a doll, that’s OK too. That notion that we should each be free to develop our own talents, whatever they may be, and not be held back by artificial barriers—manmade barriers, certainly not heaven sent.”

“The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.”

People Ifs Way Years Mean Sometimes Running Artist Wonder Talent Weapons Notion Starvation Bourgeoisie Subsistence

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.”

Needs Writing Has Beens Different Wanted Young Ability Talent Conscious Notion Peculiar Talents And Abilities

Author:Patricia Wentworth

“Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose patience over the number of letters pouring in from fellows who want me or someone else to hand them a job on a silver platter with a guarantee that they will receive the wonderful promotion their talents warrant.... But a tragic number of young men and even older men have a notion that it is not up to them to prosecute the bettering process. They look to someone else to perform the trick for them.”

“Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.”

Trying Chance Talent Notion

Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

“It seems to be extensively believed by photographers that meanings are to be found in the world much in the way rabbits are found in downs, and all that is required is the talent to spot them and the skill to shoot them... But those moments of truth for which the photographic opportunist waits, finger on the button, are as great a mystification as the notion of autonomous creativity.”

World Way Moments Seems Found Waiting Creativity Talent Skills Fingers Notion Photographer Spots Buttons Rabbits Autonomous Opportunist Moment Of Truth

Book:Situational Aesthetics: Selected Writings by Victor Burgin

Source: Situational Aesthetics: Selected Writings by Victor Burgin

“From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it - I wouldn't call it "talent" - though I wondered if I'd ever have the guts to actually commit to it.”

Ifs Writing Done Enough Age Wanted Fiction Talent College Notion Commit Guts Knack

Author:Ben Fountain