Dilloway Quotes & Sayings

In some instances, it may unfortunately be necessary for a Wife to seek outside employment, such as when the husband is dismembered or is dead. — Margaret Dilloway

If you dance daily, you will find strength within thy soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you. — Zig Ziglar

Yeah, you are kind of a dumbass. — P.T. Dilloway

In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut. — Margot Livesey

When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving. — Mark Victor Hansen

The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation. — Billy Higgins

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience. — Josef Albers

Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth. — Margaret Dilloway

You are right to be afraid," he said, "but where does this fear lead you? Nowhere. You must let go of fear. — Margaret Dilloway

Earlier today I was eating a nugget. — Angello Wellson-Noble

Solitude my solace, wrapped around me
like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books
and I can sing as loud as I please all day and night.
[from the poem, Rapunzel: I like the Quiet] — Jeannine Hall Gailey

I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made. — John Stuart Mill

The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. — Robert Southey

The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists. — Artur Schnabel

How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other. — Luanne Rice