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Maj Sjowall Quotes

You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: swedish
Birth: September 25, 1935

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Attitude Girl Myself Lie People Me

I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in my head many times. I think someday I will see it, when things are different there, but I've come to feel like I really am a Miami girl.

Jennine Capó Crucet

Girl Me Growing Up Think Miami You

We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.

Work Justice Equality Inspired Us

Lost dollars are simply harder to replace than gained dollars are to lose.

Lose Lost Replace Than Simply

There are parents with wealth who just want their kids to be wealthy, and then there are other parents with money who want to teach their kids how they got it. That's what my dad was like.

Money Parents Wealth Want Teach Got

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

Think You Jazz Radio I Think

We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on.

Education Home Children Parents Sex

Even though we are a nation that's becoming a minority country, we still have this view where everything is seen through the prism of the dominant culture, which really means white.

Culture View White Country Nation

There should be no room in our society for any type of religious bigotry.

Society Room Religious Our Should

The Second Amendment is not about hunting. It is about protecting ourselves from a tyrannical government.

Derrick Grayson

Government Hunting Amendment Second

When I look half naked on stage, it's not because I'm trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move.

I Am Sexy Enough Trying Look Want

I have served in the Senate since December 2012 with seats on the Appropriations and Commerce committees and previously served as the lieutenant governor and in the state House. These positions provided me insights on Hawaii's priorities and how to effectively work with stakeholders to achieve meaningful results.

Work Me Priorities Hawaii House

When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.

William Nicholson

Now Seriously Write Years Chosen

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