Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all. ”

Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun. ”

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. ”

Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers. ”

I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated. ”

Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite? ”

I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to. ”

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely. ”

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate. ”

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab. ”