Tracy > Tracy's Quotes

“Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. (in a letter written while she was in college)”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“An interested person is an interesting person.”
― Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema

“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
― Emma Goldman

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”
― Doris Lessing

“Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.”
― Jane Austen

“They say that 'home is where the heart is.' I think it is where the house is, and the adjacent buildings.”
― Emily Dickinson

“She read everything.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man.
(from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)”
― William James