Elsesser Rentals Quotes & Sayings

For some people life outside the spotlight is death. — Nadia Comaneci

Like so many other things in the previous year, my politics had also been retooled by maternity. I began to suspect that modern feminism had gotten it at least partly wrong ... In devaluing the home and the vast range of domestic work
childrearing included
and in fighting a fight largely for the right to work outside the home, the modern feminist movement ignored a singular power already available to women and, maybe more important, to the collective imagination. Rather than fighting to re-invent the home, or to effect a real transformation of values, or to legitimize and legalize the domestic and childrearing work that so many women engage in
which is necessary to support any mother's work outside the home
we have found it easier to map power where it already existed. Is this really my only choice? Between the intense demands of an academic career (supported by full-time childcare) and the mind-deadening contemplation of Cheerios? — Lisa Catherine Harper

To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one. — L.R.W. Lee

I'm not focused on what other people think of me. — Cate Blanchett

As she said, she was 'fond of luxury', and her chief trouble was poverty. — Louisa May Alcott

My favorite food in the world is Mexican food. I'm not a dessert person. I'm more of a crunchy, salty girl. I could live on chips and salsa. I would take a Mexican meal over some fancy French cuisine anytime. — Michelle Pfeiffer

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. — Grace Paley

It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually. — Rainbow Rowell

If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy. — Martin Luther

Squirmed under the pressure. The leader squatted down and sorted through the — Lee Child

I'm nothing without you, Ly. I just don't work without you. You've broken me." He smiles. "You are everything to me and I will spend the rest of my life showing you that you didn't make the worst mistake of your life by falling in love with a must like me. — Samantha Towle

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Sipping underneath that wet, burned rice after dinner in his gaze is some long night far away on the other side of earth in other eyes and other pots burned hot in the charcoal clay stove flickered light from the lit dry grass under the same stars fields of rice and water Pacific Ocean end of murmured sadness jumped intestinal interstices, bisected, circulated, tongue's crack, crossed into gut, guttered now between the pages of this book the floating gaze and taste burnt right through to the spine. — Fred Wah

When I first went to kindergarten kids asked me what I was. I did not understand-I'm a person. They explained that I look a little different and it is not as easy to tell which color I am. -Janelle from Who I Am Not What I Am, Tara Michener — Tara Michener