Sam > Sam's Quotes

“Do I have to smash a glass over the head of every single man I come into contact with, just so I leave a fucking mark?

'Jesus.”
― Eliza Clark

“Although most people might want it, fame has the lowest odds of success, paired with the highest level of shame for those who fail. If someone changes after years as a banker, or an insurance salesman, we applaud them. But if you switch careers after working in entertainment? You're a failure. I guess the assumption is if anyone could be famous, they would. So, if you stop pursuing it, it must because you couldn't, and not because you just wanted to do something else.”
― Sarah Hartshorne, You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model

“They tend to be skinny; perhaps their performance of appetite suggests comfort with deprivation. Maybe they dupe men into thinking that they, like air plants, don't need nourishment to survive.”
― Chelsea G Summers

“The problem was the liars. They said she could do anything she set her mind to, they told her she should shoot for the moon because if she missed she’d be among the stars, they made movies tricking her into thinking she could achieve heroic things. All lies. Because she was born to answer phones in call centers, to carry bags to customers’ cars, to punch a clock, to measure her life in smoke breaks. To think otherwise was insane.”
― Grady Hendrix, Horrorstör

“They're all white-they don't understand that I'll be asking for permission for the rest of my life”
― Nicola Dinan, Disappoint Me

“The unanswered questions because they were unasked. A kind of lethargy had settled on me at the Conservatory, turned into impotence by every additional place that relegated me an outsider. I had decided that everyone else knew best. Now I have lost not only my culture but my family as well.”
― Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

“This is an ideal place to work...As long as you’re able to go deaf, blind, and mute from time to time.”
― Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

“Rather than pass in public as human, she opts to simply disappear.”
― Spencer Williams, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

“Without a career or a husband, you’re of no value to society, and people like you get expurgated from the village.

'Uh-huh.”
― Sayaka Murata , Convenience Store Woman

“Disappointment is a spotlight that is shining on a part of you that you have not let go yet.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul at Work: Teachings to Transform Your Work Life