Alayne Macchiaverna Quotes & Sayings

Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. — Roseanne Barr

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing, — Miuccia Prada

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time. — Tom Felton

Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence. — Stephen Covey

If you hate the war, that's fine. But you should still support the troops. They don't get to pick where they're deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies. — Chris Kyle

Eviction reveals people's vulnerability and desperation, as well as their ingenuity and guts. — Matthew Desmond

This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, 'love of fate,' love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art ... — Joseph Campbell

Fate always had a way of intervening. Pushed everyone in the right direction. The thing with fate though, was that someone always got hurt. — S.E. Jakes

I grew up in a little Methodist church that was very rural, very community support-oriented, made up of great people who talked about love and grace and the spiritual experience, but only in rhetorical terms. — James Redfield

I've gotten to the point where I'm not even a little apologetic about this business of not eating stuff that's bad for me. No one else has to live with my fat, work through my energy and mood swings, pay my doctor bills, fight my cravings, for face my family history of diabetes and cancer. If people insist, I can get a little testy. — Dana Carpender

I write characters. Some of those characters are women. — Greg Rucka

He's been known to steal a kiss under the branches of that big oak, too. You'd never know it to look at him, but my Arthur can be quite the man of passion." Nicole giggled, charmed by the idea of the staid butler sharing a passionate embrace with his wife in such a setting. "I can't imagine a better place for a tryst. It's a shame I don't have a beau to share it with." The housekeeper's expression sharpened an instant before the dust rag resumed its fluttering - a fluttering that seemed rather more frantic than necessary. "So you have no young man paying court to you? Hard to believe, as pretty as you are." Nicole blushed and became suddenly fascinated with the logbook in front of her. "Not yet," she said, fingering the pages, "but my father has a few prospects in mind. — Karen Witemeyer

I'm a working mom. I've been working since I was 14 years old. — Sarah Steelman

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland — James Connolly

I just want to tell a good story, so I always ask myself, 'Are these people real to me?' — Ruth Rendell