Sofia Samatar book A Stranger in Olondria
Source: A Stranger in Olondria (2013), Chapter 6, “The Feast of Birds” (p. 60)
(on "Rhiannon") The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock 'n' Roll http://books.google.com/books?id=GBYEAAAAMBAJ (1996: Harvard University Press), ISBN 9780674802735, p. 281.
Sofia Samatar book A Stranger in Olondria
Source: A Stranger in Olondria (2013), Chapter 6, “The Feast of Birds” (p. 60)
“Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“I'm not wild about the term first lady. I'd just like to be called Laura Bush.”
Laura Bush (1946) First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
CBS News (June 24, 2004) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/24/eveningnews/main625975.shtml
Mandy Patinkin (1952) American actor and tenor singer
Kansan.com (the University of Kansas Daily), "A conversation with Mandy Patinkin" http://www.kansan.com/stories/2005/apr/07/jayplay_features_mandy_qanda/ (2005-04-07)
“Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a”
George S. Clason (1874–1957) British businessman and writer
“What is the law?—Who are the law makers?”
Thomas Hodgskin (1787–1869) British writer
The law is a great scheme of rules intended to preserve the power of government, secure the wealth of the landowner, the priest, and the capitalist, but never to secure his produce to the labourer.—The law-maker is never a labourer, and has no natural right to any wealth.—He takes no notice of the natural right of property.—Manifold miseries which result from his appropriating the produce of labour, and from the legal right of property being in opposition to the natural.
p. 44
The Natural and Artificial Right of Property Contrasted (1832)
“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Goddess who delights in the ruin of the rose,
Prolong the night!”
Renée Vivien (1877–1909) British poet who wrote in the French language
Déesse à qui plaît la ruine des roses,<br>Prolonge la nuit ! <br class="br"> Prolonge la Nuit http://www.reneevivien.com/evocations.html#feuilles (Prolong the Night), trans. Margaret Porter <br class="br"> Évocations http://www.reneevivien.com/evocations.html (1903)