Herstory Book Quotes & Sayings

Bleeding is for those who suck enough to get injured. — Duke Nukem

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to. — Alice Sebold

Dunkirk has fallen ... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You have not disappointed me. — Adolf Hitler

She was sensible of the fact that while there were two sets of masculine arms to fall into, and one of them her current pet, Phryne had fallen into Dot's. — Kerry Greenwood

The bowl that emerged was one of those gifts whose first impact produces in the recipient's mind a colored image, a blazoned blur, reflecting with such emblematic force the sweet nature of the donor that the tangible attributes of the thing are dissolved, as it were, in this pure inner blaze, but suddenly and forever leap into brilliant being when praised by an outsider to whom the true glory of the object is unknown. — Vladimir Nabokov

I was going with someone for a few years, but we broke up. It was one of those things. He wanted to get married, and I didn't want him to. — Rita Rudner

Dying is the last thing I will ever do. — John Barrymore

The secret to fundraising comes down to three magic words: before, more, and strategic. — Jay Samit

Remembering was pointless; but forgetting somehow seemed immoral. — Christopher Fowler

When established identities become outworn or unfinished ones threaten to remain incomplete, special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases. — Erik Erikson

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you. — Jennifer Egan

I'm starting over now; this is my new beginning. — Kristin Hannah