K. > K.'s Quotes

“History is written by the victors.”
― Walter Benjamin

“You have to be odd to be number one”
― Dr. Seuss

“In a world where everybody is over the bar, people don’t buy what you know. They buy who you are.”
― Michael Katz, The Likeable Expert: 121 funny business tips for increasing productivity as a solopreneur

“The thing about caller ID is,” Red said, more or less to himself, “it seems a little like cheating. A person should be willing to take his chances, answering the phone.”
― Anne Tyler, A Spool of Blue Thread

“And then we do a much greater disservice to girls, because we raise them to cater to the fragile egos of males. We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists