Ramey Quotes & Sayings

[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist. — Estelle Ramey

Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, 'quick-fix' traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. Service and patience are what can keep things running effectively today and women can contribute a lot in both of these areas. — Estelle Ramey

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences. — Estelle Ramey

The recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore. — Estelle Ramey

When you find what you love, you do it. That's it. — Elizabeth Holmes

Ramey said in heaven you had no more pains or tears. — Karen Kingsbury

now," Ali said. "I won't be able to talk to her about any of this until after school is over for the day." "Don't," Stu advised. "Let me get a little better handle on what's going on before you discuss it with her. In fact, don't discuss it with her at all. Once we have her thumbprint she'll have access to all her grandmother's financial dealings and so will we without anyone crossing over into forbidden territory." Hacking into unauthorized servers was something Stu Ramey did very well, but there were always risks involved, and hacking into financial accounts when it wasn't necessary was stupid. — J. A. Jance

We really are kindred spirits you know; conjurers in love with vampires. The Vamp Tramps! — Quinteria Ramey

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy. — Estelle Ramey

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel. — Estelle Ramey

I think she gave everyone a small piece of who she was. So if any one of them left, no one would have taken all of her, she wouldn't be completely broken. — Stacie Ramey

All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction. — Estelle Ramey

The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman? — Estelle Ramey

She could always talk me into anything. My sister made me a little starstruck. — Stacie Ramey

To Limit Yourself Is To Limit The Possibilities — Yelle Hughes

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I see the opportunity and we're going right.' — Ryan Kavanaugh

She did it. It's over. There are no do-overs in suicide. — Stacie Ramey

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred. — Thomas Jefferson

I don't mind ... the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty. — Estelle Ramey

I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with. — Gillian Jacobs

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music. — Ahmet Ertegun