Dilloway Margaret 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

Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature - and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning - and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or The Fountainhead that they will betray: it is their own souls. AYN RAND New York, May 1968 — Ayn Rand

Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg. — Frederick Lenz

One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten. — R. Scott Bakker

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

There is a safety mechanism in place [to ensure the perambulator doesn't turn back into a purse with a baby in it] : if anything weighing more than a pound and a half-about the weight of a three-volume novel-is in the carriage of the perambulator, it will not transform. — Lev A.C. Rosen

Success in many of life's most important endeavors begins with a commitment to act like the person you hope to become. — Lou Schuler

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

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it. — Lucian

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella. — Barbara Johnson

You guys are like drug dealers peddling adrenaline — Mary Calmes

The United States is a proud, determined, hard-working, talented, patriotic nation and people, and it is not over-extended in the manner of empires of the past that took over the lands of others and eventually collapsed under the weight of the over-ambitious hegemon. — Conrad Black

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