Nervous Conditions Gender Inequality Quotes & Sayings

Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember. — Nancy E. Turner

The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined. — T. S. Eliot

I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me. — Robert Barry

It's funny to think that the wind has a shape but it does. It becomes visible every once in a while - in rain being driven to the ground in sheets, or in the snow on the fields behind our house. I remember looking out the window of my room in the winter, watching the wind blow on the surface of the white fields, lifting and whipping the snow into spirals, and in a flash you could see the force that was always there come to life and reveal itself. I think it is this way with children and parents. They are always there and then suddenly through some shock or disappointment or great gesture or obscene the child sees this person who was there all the while - invisible to them beyond their function to provide. — Bill Clegg

I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song. — Anthony Newley

We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment. — Barbara Brennan

My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week. — Kay Bailey Hutchison

Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences. — David Mitchell

The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals. — Italo Calvino

I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline. — Viggo Mortensen

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, — George R R Martin

He had lost control over his own body, he realized dully. — John Flanagan

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow. — Margaret Heffernan

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. — Ian Fleming