Iris Smyles
There's something that comes from mistakes. Maybe adventures involve treasure or something. I think the wrong turns are more important than the right ones. Most people don't go through life without making mistakes, but sometimes you meet someone who seems to hit all the marks. But they never seem to know very much. They have success and luck but no real wisdom.Collection: Real
Seducing ourselves, our own self-delusions, the things we think we want but we really don't. Advertising in America is when we are sold our own dreams and desires.Collection: Dream
As a Greek woman, the most important thing you can do in life is get married and have children. You could win the Nobel Prize, but if you don't have a husband and kids everyone feels bad for you because you're a failure.Collection: Children
For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.Collection: Thinking
I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.Collection: Believe
I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.Collection: Country
It's so much healthier to acknowledge we're fluid and constantly in flux than to pretend to live in a universe where everything is fixed.Collection: Acknowledge