“At the danger of waxing nostalgic about the ‘old days,’ I don’t want to be like everyone else. I want acceptance, but I want acceptance of my difference, not my sameness. It’s a funny contract. The cultural machine wants to chew everyone up and turn them into this uniform little substance.”
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“If you think you are powerless, then you are”
― Brick Lane
― Brick Lane
“Das ganze Leben ist eine tolle Geschichte, John! Einige Menschen erkennen bloß nicht, dass sie selbst die Autoren sind und die Geschichte so schreiben können, wie sie es möchten.”
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“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“Spreading rumours is our national past time”
― Brick Lane
― Brick Lane
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