Novogratz Home Quotes & Sayings

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that. — Libba Bray

Sex and Strawberries is my new favorite scent. — T. Saint John

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. — Lawrence Summers

It's a razor's edge kind of innocence, which relies on a willingness to be duped for the sake of transcending ordinary experience, for the sake of astonishment. — Maud Casey

Beauty isn't always in a physical sense.
it's how you are as a person and
how you make others feel about who they are. — Tawana Beecham

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there. — Jacqueline Novogratz

In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start. — W. H. Auden

One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much. — Fred Rogers

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. — Margaret Weis