Thoreaus Essay Quotes & Sayings

I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects. — Eve Ensler

The angrier the man, the more desperate his love. — Sally MacKenzie

What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts. — Robert E.Lee

I flew back and forth and did episodes of Roseanne while I was at Yale. — Sara Gilbert

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me. — Jeanette Winterson

It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention. — Zooey Deschanel

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling. — George Bernard Shaw