Ssssss Quotes & Sayings

When you are pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your lifet rying to figure out how to keep her close enough for for comfort. — Jodi Picoult

The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying. This is America, not Saudi Arabia. — Anna Wintour

Oft times, we must fight a battle, if only to learn to lay down our arms. — Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

Even victories take their toll on a man. — Brian Herbert

Do I frighten you?" I ask softly.
He seems to think about that. After a while, he leans back and looks skyward. "I don't know," he replies. "But I do know that I may never meet another like you again. — Marie Lu

I am a woman and when I think, I must speak. — Beyonce Knowles

Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger no one could say. Of the latter we never spoke, but it was always with us. Fear, constant companion of the peasant. Hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow should he relax. Despair, ready to engulf him should he falter. Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death. — Kamala Markandaya

A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways. — Bee Wilson

Even if my movies weren't big blockbusters, directors generally liked me, so they would fight for me. — Mark Ruffalo

Some makeup you put on and feel like you're getting pimples by the hour. — Vendela Kirsebom

Id i think i was god that i had to lie and take it did i think then i was a mountain or a hill or a ridge and who told me that and who decided stones had no rights for stones can waste away from being denied from being abused and who decided who is the ploughed and who ploughs and why did i not get up and why not go away and what would have happened if i had resisted.. — Marlene Van Niekerk

Yet by some stroke of almost providential good fortune, he became wanted. — John Grogan

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee