Bastine Law Quotes & Sayings

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. — Betty Friedan

Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know, in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that, — Paula Deen

Instead of seeking wisdom, liberals desire to be seen as clever by being counterintuitive, crazy, and outre. — Ann Coulter

The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility. — Diane Arbus

TV is definitely easier hours. — Eric Stonestreet

Now, why is it that most of us can talk openly about the illnesses of our bodies, but when it comes to our brain and illnesses of the mind we clam up and because we clam up, people with emotional disorders feel ashamed, stigmatized, and don't seek the help that can make the difference. — Kirk Douglas

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations. — A. N. Wilson

and so it goes with God — Yann Martel

Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you. — Marissa Meyer

I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel. — Behdad Sami

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think. — Mark Millar

Maybe they'll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don't fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that's what they'll do. — Margaret Atwood

Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future that has removed procreation from woman's hands, there will also be no affect and no art. Men will be machines, without pain but also without pleasure. Imagination has a price, which we are paying every day. There is no escape from the biologic chains that bind us. — Camille Paglia

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder. — George V. Higgins