Quotes About Discovery

I feel like as a teenager making music, I had a lot of internalised misogyny, a need to be one of the boys, and a lot of self-hatred. As I discovered what feminism is and what it meant to me, it definitely took a hold of my life in a big way.

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.

I love U.K. festivals because people go to watch as many bands as possible. They aren't just there to see their favourites; they'll be there all day long.

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.

The really cool thing about festivals is that you're getting to play in front of a whole lot of people who have never heard of us before. That's exciting. At the same time, it's a little bit of a challenge to capture the attention of people who have already seen a lot of bands.

When I first started blogging, I kept it a secret from my friends and then started to show a few people, and it snowballed from there.

When something in art or music piques my interest, I tend to go check it out, and most things I check out, I'm not very good at. But a few things I've gone to check out have given me back as much love as I gave them, usually much more.

There are very few things that a good run can't help you figure out.

But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.

I made my own fictional land, which is 'Bell Choir Coast.' It was a response to feeling really, really lost, and it was what I was looking for.

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

It's fun to get out in the field. I really enjoy that. It's fun creating.

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

At first I thought the character Sun-young was a normal character, but later I realized that she is not after all. In some sense, she could be fierce.

I learned Romanian very late, when I was fifteen, in town, and I wanted to learn it. I like the language very much.

My husband has a cousin who discovered, in his fifties, that the man he thought was his father was actually not, and that he had not only a father he had never met, but brothers.

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.

The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.