5 Quotes by Amanda James

I think as a general rule people don't think or question enough. This leaves their brain more susceptible to the relentless dumbing-down process of the media and the desire of an individual to escape from the pressures of everyday life by drinking alcohol and watching mind-numbing 'reality' shows, soaps or perhaps endless sport.

Pain and sorrow make up a person's character, not just the happiness and laughter.

Being different was good, I liked it and I wouldn't change myself for anyone. Not ever.

Most people actively try to bury their differences and become like everyone else for fear of ridicule. They want to belong. They want to 'fit in'. They don't like to be singled out, have their differences scrutinised, put on microscope slides or in Petri dishes and poked by society. I on the other hand, rejoice in it. I don't want to belong if it means having to wrestle your individuality into a small space, paint it grey and make it... normal.

Does that mean that if a man opens a woman's fiction book, all the words will slide off the page in a swoon, or flutter a fan and scamper away in horror? Or perhaps the book will explode to ensure no manly eye can read what he's not supposed to?