Seddigh Arbetter Quotes & Sayings

The challenge was that it was harder to be subtle than strident. — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

My husbands weren't any of them bad men, I was the problem. Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.

And then I couldn't fit my whole self into a marriage, no matter who my husband was. There were parts of me that John liked, and different parts for the others, but no one could deal with all of me, So I'd lop some part off, but then I'd start missing it, wanting it back. I didn't really fall in love until I had that first child. — Karen Joy Fowler

Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has. — Christine Pelosi

While luck may be more appealing than effort, you don't get to choose luck. Effort, on the other hand, is totally available, all the time. — Dan Waldschmidt

What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! — Lord Byron

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy. — Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

I must go live at the ends of the earth and have my child there while I wait for Min and Jing to be freed.
That happy day will come: two men making their way towards a little cottage lost in the open countryside.
The door opens ... — Shan Sa

Trying to win a power struggle is like trying to win a nuclear war. You may achieve your goal, but not without catastrophic casualties on both sides. — Jamie Raser

He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise. — Hines Ward