Sara Paretsky Quotes - Page 3

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• The hardest thing about adolescence is that everything seems too big. There's no way to get context or perspective, ..... Pain and joy without limits. No one can live like that forever, so experience finally comes to our rescue. We come to know what we can endure, and also that nothing endures.

  Sara Paretsky

  Pain, Perspective, Joy

  Sara Paretsky (2008). “Bleeding Kansas”, p.240, Penguin

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• I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

  Sara Paretsky

  Country, Writing, Long

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• She knew the intensity of adolescence, and knew no cure for it except growing up. And then one has age and experience, and mourns the loss of intensity. Maybe it's why musicians and mathmaticians are said to peak young-poetry needs the fire of an unbounded universe.

  Sara Paretsky

  Growing Up, Writing, Loss

  Sara Paretsky (2008). “Bleeding Kansas”, p.240, Penguin

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• My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sibling, Home, Parent

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• Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

  Sara Paretsky

  Kind, Term

  Source: progressive.org

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• I admire about Hillary: Every time I am going to walk away from her candidacy, I think, she has absorbed more hate than anyone I can think of over the past twenty years, and she hasn't cracked under it. That's a kind of iron fortitude that maybe we need in the President of the United States. People project on to Hillary because she is a woman. They either hate her for everything they hate about women or they long for her to be everything they want in a woman. It's an impossible burden.

  Sara Paretsky

  Hate, Past, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• I guess I don't have a candidate who makes my heart go pitter-patter the way I wish it would. I'm thinking, here's an African American candidate - yes! And here's a woman candidate - yes! Why can't I get behind either one of them? Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

  Source: progressive.org

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• Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

  Sara Paretsky

  Novel, Wanted, Publish

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• People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

  Sara Paretsky

  Space, Cities, People

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• Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.

  Sara Paretsky

  Hurt, Moving, Arms

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• I love to sing. I'm a soprano.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sopranos

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• I'm jealous of everyone discovering Lovesey and Diamond for the first time-you have a wonderful backlist to catch up on. Me, all I can do is wait for the next book.

  Sara Paretsky

  Book, Jealous, Waiting

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• I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

  Sara Paretsky

  Grandmother, Proud

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• I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

  Sara Paretsky

  Girl, Home, Kansas

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• I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

  Sara Paretsky

  Chicago, Cubs, Dies

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• Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago put up on college campuses. I was at the University of Kansas, and it's somewhat relevant to my life and work that I'm a Jew. But they weren't doing a religious litmus test. They wanted energetic, civil-rights-committed college students to come help them run some summer programs.

  Sara Paretsky

  Summer, Running, Religious

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.

  Sara Paretsky

  Kings, Home, Kids

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.

  Sara Paretsky

  Summer, New York, Children

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the black community, centuries of government and economic forces were pushing on them. I went in with a kind of arrogance, maybe, that came from living in a very intellectual family, and I left knowing that there was a lot about the way people lived that I didn't know about.

  Sara Paretsky

  Destiny, Government, White

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues

  Sara Paretsky

  Loyal, Following

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• When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sunday, Cities, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

  Sara Paretsky

  Sunday, Order, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.progressive.org

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