Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was this weird thing where I was censored in terms of what I could watch but not in terms of what I could read. ”

You can't be limited by your own experience. ”

I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention. ”

You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life. ”

You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look. ”

Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience. ”

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. ”

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information. ”

You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently. ”

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit. ”