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Arundhati Roy Quotes

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: indian
Birth: November 24, 1961

Topics

Day World Quiet I Can Way Possible

Turkey can be a bridge to regimes and actions the United States can't reach. Turkey can talk to people the United States can't talk to.

People Bridge Reach Talk United

I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Finance. I was the youngest person and the first woman ever to hold that job. Everybody else in the room was male. I knew then that I had to work harder than any man to prove to them that I was capable.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Work Job Woman Man Finance Team

Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.

Children Quality Child Parents World

Basically, we've grown up very focused on the institution. The institution tells me what to do. It tells me where to go. It tells me what my career path is, and then I, sort of, attach my own personal desires, my own personal interests. I think we're living in a time where we're going to have to change - to put people in the center.

Change Path Time People Me Think

I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way.

Lois Greenfield

Work I Am Mind Start Creating Know

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Poetry Roses True Scent Poet Bother

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

Good Ego Recognition You Nice Dig

I consider myself a rampant feminist.

Myself Feminist Consider Rampant

I went into the seminary when I was 16.

Clarence Thomas

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class.

Me You Country Sometimes Say Class

Work is sacred. It is not just a way to earn money or gain power, though it may result in both. Work is a vehicle for testing out our gifts and talents and using them to explore their meaning.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Work Power Money Meaning Result Way

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

Anthony Burgess

Funny Think Thought Serious First

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