Foremother Quotes & Sayings

Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better. — Emma Forrest

Over 60 percent of the university students in Iran are female. The women in Iran are better educated than men. — Shirin Ebadi

If you do not follow somebody you feel very lonely. Be lonely then. Why are you frightened of being alone? Because you are faced with yourself as you are and you find that you are empty, dull, stupid, ugly, guilty and anxious - a petty, shoddy, secondhand entity. Face the fact; look at it, do not run away from it. The moment you run away fear begins. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas. — Phil Donahue

The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Good fashion is evolution, not revolution. — Pierre Balmain

Time is merely the spread-out and piecemeal view that an individual being has of the Ideas. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary. — James Alan Fox

I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations. — Lucas Neff

Yet it seems so easy to take a photograph! One forgets that, apart from the technical aspects, photography can be a mental creation and the affirmation of a personality. What is marvelous about a photograph is that its possibilities are infinite; there aren't any subjects 'done to death'. — Gisele Freund

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print. — Clive Sinclair

One extremely important purpose of emotions from an evolutionary perspective is to help us decide what to remember and what to forget. The cavewoman who could remember which cave had the gentle guy who gave her food is more likely to be our foremother than the cave woman who confused it with the cave that held the killer bear. The emotion of love (or something resembling it) and the emotion of fear would help secure her memories. — Candace Pert

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves. — Sam Taylor-Johnson