Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Quote by Nadine Gordimer

Topics: Power Quotes

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age...

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age...

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

A desert is a place without expectation.

A desert is a place without expectation.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women...