22 quotes found
“She has her own brand of strength,brought to the surface by the dim glow of the streetlight and the whisper of night air on her skin.”
“The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.”
“You label somebody 'New Age,' and that's automatic mockery: 'She cannot possibly be a serious thinker.'”
“When I'm in the U.K., I have a personal trainer who is wonderful, and she's hard-core and makes sure I get up in the morning and go.”
“My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman.”
“Can you not see that women could do and would do a hundred times more for the slave, if she were not fettered?”
“I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.”
“There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours. ”
“Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.”
“She is a peacock in everything but beauty.”
“My mom used to get arrested for being with my dad. She would get fined. She would spend weekends in jail.”
“Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.”
“I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.”
“At 13, I was wearing plain t-shirts. Then I used to steal my mom's clothing. She had all these crushed-velvet shirts with French-cut sleeves. And, like, seersucker bell-bottoms.”
“My mom grew up in the Soviet Bloc, and she was a Tiger Mom. We didn't get away with much.”
“My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.”
“If fortune favors you do not be elated if she frowns do not despond. ”
“Judy Garland was a different type of entertainer. She was a dancer, a singer, and an incurable romantic.”
“Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.”
“France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.”
