"...it changed and I changed.  By the time I sat down at the typewriter, I was writing a book quite unlike the one I had at first planned to write, because I was quite unlike the person who had first considered writing it. I had an altered vision of life, not to mention an altered life.  My experiences had compelled me to start thinking about the ways in which life changes character and capacity, the ways in which the accidents of success or failure influence one's sense of oneself, the ways in which society both creates and destroys the human capacity for survival."

"Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change."  ~ Ingrid Bengis.*

Ingrid at The Strand Book Store, Manhattan, NY.

~ Ingrid Bengis, American writer b. 1945  Source:  The Writer on Her Work, Seventeen Essays, W.W. Norton & Co., 2000  Edited by Janet Sternburg.

* author of Combat in the Erogenous Zone.
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