“Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971)
Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: The Spiral Dance is a seed planted twenty years ago. Over the last two decades, the goddess movement has grown from many seeds like a garden of long-life flowers and healing herbs. It's a big garden — I've tended only one corner of it.
“Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.”
Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer
As quoted in Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets (1971)
Julia Cameron (1948) American writer
Blessings (1998)
Context: When I listen to love, I am listening to my true nature. When I express love, I am expressing my true nature. All of us love. All of us do it more and more perfectly. The past has brought us both ashes and diamonds. In the present we find the flowers of what we've planted and the seeds of what we are becoming. I plant the seeds of love in my heart. I plant the seeds of love in the hearts of others.
“Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have”
J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) British writer
As quoted in "Age of unreason" by Jeannette Baxter in The Guardian (22 June 2004)
Context: Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: entire relationships flourish, friendships prosper…there’s a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet.
“I want to plant a few more seeds here and there before they plant me.”
Doris Haddock (1910–2010) American political activist
“Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.”
B. W. Powe (1955) Canadian writer
Third Meditation, p. 157
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)
“Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”
Donna Haraway book A Cyborg Manifesto
"A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature (1991), pp.149-181.
“I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.”
Gypsy Rose Lee (1911–1970) American burlesque performer, actress, author
As quoted in The Making of a Muckraker (1979) by Jessica Mitford, p. 113
“Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.”
E. W. Howe (1853–1937) Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p61.
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
1870s, An Appeal to Young Men (1879)
“The seed must grow regardless
Of the fact that it’s planted in stone”
Tupac Shakur book The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete