Nadine’s Reviews > This Much is True > Status Update

Truth is not hard to see if you open your eyes.

I’ve become more political as I’ve got older; I haven’t mellowed - I’ve billowed. I don’t feel like being accepting and understanding, I want to fight more. I’d prefer not to be political, but how can one help it with such a collection of nasty people in charge?

Huh two books I’ve read have just made a connection. In Miriam M’s book she mentions Richard Neville (notorious from the Oz trial). Hippy Hippy Shake is about him. Great book as well esp if you were born on or after 1967 and have no idea about this era.

Love this: everyone I’ve known leaves footprints on my life. Thank you.

I must remember this. Sometimes it’s better to stay silent:

We should all try to make people feel good: if you can’t say something nice, then shut up and don’t say anything at all.

Love this:
I’m as big a feminist as anyone, but now I always say, when you see ‘women’ spelt with a ‘y’, run like hell.

Love this about portrait of Gertrude Stein by Picasso:
You could not escape the eyes, there was a kindness in them I hadn’t expected.

It’s lonely, but you can keep the pencils.

Love that.

But the personal experience of tragedy opened my eyes and gave me a compassion I had lacked until then. I realised then that life could get up and bite you … I know that kindness and gentleness are the most valuable commodities. Now, more than ever, they demand distribution.

I like this: Remember, vowels c CD sorry the emotion in a word - consonants carry the sense.’