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#1

“Billie was hoping to get these two alive but was feeling rapidly less stuck on the idea.”
― Tara Moss, The War Widow

tags: 1940s, crime, detective, historical-fiction, noir, tara-moss, the-war-widow

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#2

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”
― bell hooks, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work

tags: women, writing

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#3

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#4

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#5

“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: men, women

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#6

“I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.”
― Edward Gorey

tags: boredom, ennui, life

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#7

“A society gets the criminals it deserves.”
― Val MacDermid, Killing the Shadows

tags: crime

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#8

“A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.”
― Raymond Chandler, Pearls are a Nuisance

tags: hyperbole, imagination

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#9

“I looked at the fashion model and reassured myself she wasn't dead.”
― Tara Moss, The Spider Goddess

tags: pandora-english, spektor, tara-moss, the-spider-goddess

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#10

“It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it.”
― Tara Moss

tags: inspirational-life, quotes, tara-moss

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#11

“The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.
Rage.”
― Tara Moss, Assassin

tags: assassin, crime, mak-vanderwall, makedde, tara-moss, thriller

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#12

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write

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#13

“I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: gender-roles, independence, self-reliance

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#14

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. ”
― Margaret Mead

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#15

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

tags: bravery, courage, fear

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#16

“Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in. In other words, the boy with the Barbie doll does not have a problem with identity. He simply has a Barbie doll. The full-time working mother and full-time stay-at-home father have not given up something essential to their identities by taking on those roles: they have negotiated their lives as it works for them. Likewise, a stay-at-home mum is not anti-feminist any more than a stay-at-home dad is. Other characteristics, such as individual ability, personal relationships, personal choice, past experience and education, are far more important than that box you tick defining yourself as M or F.”
― Tara Moss, The Fictional Woman

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#17

“Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it –and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of “writing rules” and advice. Do it your way.”
― Tara Moss

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#18

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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#19

“Most modern authors dealing with Erzsébet's life and crimes have produced works of fiction, including Jozo Niznansky's The Lady of Čachtice (1932); Kálmán Vándor's Báthory Erzsébet (1940); La Comtesse sanglante, by Valentine Penrose (1962), Alejandra Pizarnik's Acerca's de la Contessa sangrienta (1968); Comtesse de Sang, by Maurice Périsset (1975); Andrei Codrescu's The Blood Countess (1995); Ella, Drácula, by Javier García Sanchez (2002); Alisa Libby's The Blood Confession (2006); Alexandre Heredia's O Legado de Báthory (2007); The Countess, by Rebecca Johns (2010); Maria Szabó's Én, Báthory Erzsébet (2010); and The Blood Countess by Tara Moss (2012).”
― Peter Vronsky, 2014 Serial Killers True Crime Anthology

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#20

“A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: hair, haircut, woman, women

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#21

“Just because it’s in a book doesn’t mean it isn’t real.’
- Great Aunt Celia”
― Tara Moss, The Spider Goddess

tags: great-aunt-celia, pandora-english, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, tara-moss, urban-fantasyy

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#22

“I’ll find out whatever I can about this Frank. Would the girls go to the police if they were in danger, do you think?”

“I can’t say,” Shyla replied, but her head was shaking as she spoke. That was hardly a surprise. A lot of Aboriginal people were suspicious of the police, or gunjies, as Shyla sometimes called them. Through conversations with Shyla, Billie had some of the picture—how contacting the authorities about anything might lead to being arrested for something else, or having the men taken, or having the Aborigines Welfare Board take children away “for their own good.”

Stuff like that tended to ensure that trust was in short supply. That long and troubled history had not been forgotten and had created understandable tension between Aboriginal communities and the white authorities. That couldn’t simply vanish overnight.”
― Tara Moss, The War Widow

tags: 1940s, aboriginal, australia, crime, crime-fiction, history, police, tara-moss, the-war-widow

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#23

“But how do you separate myth from reality? How do you know which of these goddesses or creatures really exist?’ I pressed.

‘I don’t,’ she said simply. ‘But if they do exist there’s a good chance they’ll show up in Spektor.”
― Tara Moss, The Spider Goddess

tags: goddesses, myths, pandora-english, paranormal, tara-moss, the-spider-goddess

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#24

“And as for returning to work as a reporter—something she’d given considerable thought to before taking over her father’s inquiry agency—the Sydney newspapers had dismissed most of their women reporters home once the men started to return from the war, or else confined them to the social pages, or covering the Easter Show, which was a bit too steep a downgrade for Billie after she’d chased Nazi activity across Europe, built a good portfolio of published articles, and worked alongside the likes of Lee Miller and Clare Hollingworth.

No, she wouldn’t last in that kind of work. It was an imperfect world, and her chosen profession was decidedly imperfect, but for now she had a hint of that spark again, that sense of doing something that mattered to someone.”
― Tara Moss, The War Widow

tags: 1940s, crime-novel, pi, private-eye, tara-moss, women-empowerment, ww2

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#25

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: metaphysics, philosophy, science, sense-of-wonder, spirituality

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#26

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

tags: spirituality

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#27

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.”
― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

tags: energy, life, spirituality

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#28

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light‐years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: atheism, religion, science, science-vs-religion, spirituality

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#29

“Find the joy where you can, and maintain the rage where it's needed.”
― Tara Moss

tags: taramoss-inspirationalquote

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#30

“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

tags: dedication, immensity, joy, love, marriage, science, space, time, true-love, vastness, wife

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