When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a ‘freeze response.’ You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn’t help you. Staying put does. Nell Scovell Read Quote
Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which ‘From the Ruins of Empire’ was. Pankaj Mishra Read Quote
Being a mother is a completely different feeling and my life has changed completely. Plus I have a new found respect for mothers. Kashmira Shah Read Quote
Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any new law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities. Susan B. Anthony Read Quote
I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting. Lake Bell Read Quote
Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it’s true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have. Christian Bale Read Quote
Maybe I’m a better actor when I know there’s going to be an older woman involved. Hunter Parrish Read Quote
Love, Simon’ is incredibly dope, but that’s one specific experience, and I would love to see more versions of that story being told or other stories that we haven’t even seen yet from the LGBTQIA community. Natasha Rothwell Read Quote
