Ladies First Scott Russell Quotes & Sayings

If there isn't a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something ... loud, now, and memorable. — Seth Godin

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom. — Mariska Hargitay

In the summer of 1705, an unusually extravagant rumor horrified the citizenry. The Tsar, it was said, had forbidden Russian men to marry for seven years so that Russian women might be married to foreigners being imported by the shipload. To preserve their young women, Astrachaners arranged a mass marriage before the foreigners could arrive, and on a single day, July 30, 1705, a hundred women were married. — Robert K. Massie

Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men. — Hugh Hefner

Live life with great humility. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Christians have no business playing around with ideas of the devil as a fun-loving, beer-swigging guy who just wants you to have a good time. — Pedro Okoro

He'd unbuttoned his shirt so the night breeze would soothe him; his body always ran too hot. The blood. Too hot. The large, gold crucifix on his neck, dangling to his thick chest hairs, caught there, and winked in the candlelight. His childhood prayers. For food. Warmth. His beloved mother. That the cruelty of his father. Stop. No more. Beatings. He never. Stopped. Beating her. Mama. [...] Pompeii remembered - like tuning into a clear TV channel - his mother's gentle face. Her fingertips on his boy's face, calming him to sleep. The sound of his father's drunken entrance, when she would hold her breath, stop stroking his boy face. — Alma Luz Villanueva

I never even tried. Because I let the world teach me to hate myself. I was a coward who needed someone else to tell me I was worth something before I took any steps to save myself. — Tahereh Mafi

Make your first kiss feel like a last kiss, or it might be." -- Scott Russell — Scott Russell

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for. — Jennifer Lopez

If trained animal professionals with years of dog-handling experience aren't good at visually identifying breeds, then what does that say about the rest of us? — Bronwen Dickey