Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience. ”

It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar. ”

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down. ”

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. ”

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do. ”

Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more. ”

I Instagram and tweet a lot about my dog. I think he is one of the most interesting things about my life right now. All my motherly instincts go toward this dog. I love the dog. ”

Having dinner with somebody you've looked up to your whole life is quite a memorable thing. Like, 'Wow. I'm having dinner with someone who is a huge inspiration to me.' That's intense. ”

When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective. ”

My mom lives in New York still in the home that I grew up in. ”