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Emma Forrest Quotes

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: british
Birth: December 26, 1977

Topics

Life Good Guilt Good Life Much

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

Father Mother Aboriginal Australian

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

Generation Trying Become Just Hey

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Women Men Problem Hide Know Say

I love country music, but I also love gangster rap.

Love Music Gangster Country Rap

There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with a hammer. U2 sometimes can hit you over the head with a rubber hammer.

Political You Sometimes Australia

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought, 'Anything is possible.'

Memories Politics Red Dress Me

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.

Today History Challenge World Pride

The first time I drank LaCroix, I half expected it to be filled with self-tanner. Or Axe body spray.

Time Body First Time First Axe Half

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

Mary McLeod Bethune

History Time Glory Development Race

In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

Lord Mountbatten

Society President British Computer

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

Voice Finding Say More Would Than

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

Father Mind Night Look White Person

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