Datelines Ap Quotes & Sayings

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man ... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that. — Jim Harrison

A dichotomy,' said the Bursar helpfully. 'Oh, I don't think surgery is involved. — Terry Pratchett

I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing. — P.J. Harvey

I don't believe in depriving myself of any food or being imprisoned by a diet. — Joely Fisher

We pissed each other off, royally and frequently in those early days. But we were getting better, bit by bit. I stopped thinking he was going to cage me and he stopped thinking I was trying flee. The poetry was not lost on us. He had abandonment issues and I had commitment issues. Go figure. Also, the sex which had been fumbling and awkward at the beginning of the relationship got really hot, we figured that was a promising sign general relationship progress.
Mostly though we realized it was about leaving the doors and windows of the relationship wide open. That way he could see in, and I could see out. — Amanda Palmer

the team will say "We can't get anything done in a week." I generally ask them, "Well, can you get anything done in a day, then?" They'll reply that they cannot, and I'll ask them why they plan to come in tomorrow if they aren't going to do anything. Haha, very funny. Except serious. — Anonymous

My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years. — Margaret Mahy

If man should commence by studying himself, he would see how impossible it is to go further. — Blaise Pascal

Always educate yourself. — Donovan Bailey

He called you pretty ... That's practically an insult, the way you
look right now ... You're much more than beautiful. — Stephenie Meyer