It's long been accepted as fact that the availability of family planning services saves lives. W...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character.
MARTHA PLIMPTON Women have always been at the forefront of progressive movements. Women can be depended on when you ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON It's not common for a woman on television, especially if she's the mom of the family, to be ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.
MARTHA PLIMPTON I've often said in the past that I thought MTV was sort of evil incarnate and signified the begi...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I am not a morning person. I like to sleep in.
MARTHA PLIMPTON I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.
MARTHA PLIMPTON The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the offi...
MARTHA PLIMPTON Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a p...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
MARTHA PLIMPTON Who owns your body? You or the state?
MARTHA PLIMPTON I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I jus...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portra...
MARTHA PLIMPTON I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
GEORGE PLIMPTON He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over...
GEORGE PLIMPTON I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
GEORGE PLIMPTON Writing is a very lonely business and when you come to a book fair and you sit at a table and people...
GEORGE PLIMPTON I was told just today that 60,000 or 70,000 people listen to this (Audible.com site), which on perso...
GEORGE PLIMPTON They did not specify that I had to run the race from the beginning, ... about a block and a half fro...
GEORGE PLIMPTON The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
GEORGE PLIMPTON The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
MARTHA BECK There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...
MARTHA GRAHAM I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dis...
MARTHA WASHINGTON The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
MARTHA WASHINGTON Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, fr...
MARTHA BECK Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, fr...
MARTHA BECK Every day brings new choices.
MARTHA BECK If anything, I'm constantly trying to figure out how to look chic with the minimal effort requir...
MARTHA HUNT Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and sta...
MARTHA GELLHORN The only sin is mediocrity.
MARTHA GRAHAM One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the ups...
MARTHA BECK I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are...
MARTHA STEWART Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making u...
MARTHA BECK To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit...
MARTHA BECK Everything I've ever taught in terms of self-help boils down to this - I cannot believe people k...
MARTHA BECK There is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never ...
MARTHA GRAHAM All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting ti...
MARTHA BECK There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...
MARTHA GRAHAM Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.
MARTHA STEWART All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...
MARTHA GRAHAM I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...
MARTHA GRAHAM There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of thei...
MARTHA GRAHAM There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into actio...
MARTHA GRAHAM Dance is the hidden language of the soul
MARTHA GRAHAM I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.
MARTHA GELLHORN Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve stea...
MARTHA GRIMES The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumst...
MARTHA WASHINGTON People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers ...
MARTHA GELLHORN America does not concern itself now with Impressionism. We own no involved philosophy. The psyche of...
MARTHA GRAHAM We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
MARTHA GRIMES I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
MARTHA GELLHORN Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the sp...
MARTHA GRAHAM Nothing is more revealing than movement.
MARTHA GRAHAM Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
MARTHA GRAHAM We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the s...
MARTHA GRAHAM You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let...
MARTHA GRAHAM Man blames fate for other accidents but feels personally responsible for a hole-in-one.
MARTHA BECKMAN Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political comm...
MARTHA NUSSBAUM The body says what words cannot.
MARTHA GRAHAM The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
MARTHA GRAHAM The body is a sacred garment.
MARTHA GRAHAM I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I a...
MARTHA BECK I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don'...
MARTHA STEWART If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already ...
MARTHA BECK Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your per...
MARTHA BECK I have a microphone on one ankle and an ankle bracelet on the other, so I'm well balanced today.
MARTHA STEWART In New York, I get a tremendous amount of ideas by looking at the paintings and the sculptures, adap...
MARTHA STEWART Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven...
MARTHA BECK Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first ...
MARTHA BECK In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brain...
MARTHA BECK I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing....
MARTHA STEWART The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned...
MARTHA WASHINGTON When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense percepti...
MARTHA BECK I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see our...
MARTHA GRAHAM If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calori...
MARTHA BECK 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
MARTHA GRAHAM Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't ...
MARTHA BECK Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
MARTHA BECK When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.
MARTHA BECK The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.
MARTHA GRAHAM Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical ap...
MARTHA BECK All the things I love is what my business is all about.
MARTHA STEWART I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
MARTHA STEWART Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, ...
MARTHA STEWART Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encourageme...
MARTHA STEWART I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the ...
MARTHA STEWART There are two kinds of people... There are the dreamers who go and buy, and there are the doers who ...
MARTHA STEWART Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, ...
MARTHA STEWART Whether you're a programmer or a seamstress, it's all about new techniques, simplifying old ...
MARTHA STEWART If you learn something new every day, you can teach something new every day.
MARTHA STEWART So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
MARTHA STEWART The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.
MARTHA STEWART I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed ...
MARTHA STEWART I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.
MARTHA STEWART I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not importan...
MARTHA STEWART I am often asked the question: 'What is your favorite type of food?' Although I always answe...
MARTHA STEWART I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
MARTHA STEWART The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top...
MARTHA STEWART My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.
MARTHA STEWART I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get al...
MARTHA STEWART Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.
MARTHA STEWART You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel ...
MARTHA STEWART I love dessert. I can't be guilty about it because I have to taste everything. I experiment.
MARTHA STEWART The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I pu...
MARTHA REEVES The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to cho...
MARTHA BECK I live in an old house with no closets and no built-ins. I hate big cupboards.
MARTHA STEWART I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine wit...
MARTHA STEWART Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just ...
MARTHA QUINN Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a...
MARTHA GRAHAM Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when...
MARTHA BECK Cheerfully fessing up to our failures turns crazy mind off, humility and compassion on. I learned th...
MARTHA BECK I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
MARTHA STEWART Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
MARTHA GRAHAM Single lady, the man you want might not necessarily be the man you need.
MARTHA MACHARIA Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in t...
MARTHA BECK Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned ...
MARTHA GELLHORN Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and ...
MARTHA BECK People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
MARTHA BECK Something in the human psyche confuses beauty with the right to be loved. The briefest glance at hum...
MARTHA BECK What happens when we're willing to feel bad is that, sure enough, we often feel bad - but withou...
MARTHA BECK When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread f...
MARTHA BECK Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attract...
MARTHA BECK I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive th...
MARTHA REEVES All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. Peopl...
MARTHA BECK It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
MARTHA GELLHORN Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most ...
MARTHA BECK Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd ...
MARTHA BECK Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged fro...
MARTHA BECK Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't...
MARTHA BECK I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in ho...
MARTHA STEWART No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one ...
MARTHA BECK I think I just stick to eating a well-rounded diet. I don't cut out anything; if I crave somethi...
MARTHA HUNT Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies sho...
MARTHA BECK My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to...
MARTHA BECK You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, ...
MARTHA STEWART Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely ...
MARTHA BECK The homes I like the best are totally occupied, busy, and useful, whether it's a tiny little hou...
MARTHA STEWART We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live b...
MARTHA GRAHAM Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of ...
MARTHA GRAHAM It is hard to imagine Andre Le Notre laying out the exquisite landscape designs for Vaux-le-Vicomte,...
MARTHA STEWART If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found i...
MARTHA MCSALLY Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
MARTHA GRAHAM The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.
MARTHA ROBY I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many...
MARTHA STEWART A designated patient 'carries' the group's dysfunction. A designated issue performs the ...
MARTHA BECK My goal with our American Made program is to inspire people of all ages to become 'doers,' w...
MARTHA STEWART Raising taxes in an economic downturn is not a good idea.
MARTHA MCSALLY I think that the lady who is waiting on me at the local diner, who has kids in school and the mouths...
MARTHA STEWART Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from...
MARTHA BECK In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our ...
MARTHA BECK Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or consci...
MARTHA REEVES I can't choose one favorite place because all destinations have something different to offer. My...
MARTHA HUNT The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
MARTHA GRAHAM Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste...
MARTHA GELLHORN The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ...
MARTHA WASHINGTON The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that mak...
MARTHA BECK The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another p...
MARTHA BECK Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really...
MARTHA BECK Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
MARTHA GRAHAM Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.
MARTHA BURGESS When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followe...
MARTHA BROOKS There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti...
MARTHA GRAHAM I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also lear...
MARTHA WASHINGTON Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustmen...
MARTHA BECK Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
MARTHA STEWART I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time.
MARTHA STEWART Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which...
MARTHA GELLHORN The center of the stage is where I am.
MARTHA GRAHAM For the vast majority of world history, human life - both culture and biology - was shaped by scarci...
MARTHA BECK There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, th...
MARTHA SMITH You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
MARTHA GRAHAM Not everyone is equally good-looking.
MARTHA BECK I suggest Substituting Inedible Nurturance, or SIN. Don't replace overeating with virtuous work ...
MARTHA BECK My daughter doesn't allow me to wear fur.
MARTHA STEWART Demanding the removal of Secretary Rumsfeld is not going to hasten the dismantling of the worldwide ...
MARTHA RAINVILLE The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this...
MARTHA GELLHORN I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.
MARTHA STEWART I think it's also safe to say genre TV and movies were a big influence - the first stories I eve...
MARTHA WELLS I just personally decided I was going to be the first woman fighter pilot.
MARTHA MCSALLY Before I became a fighter pilot, everyone said that women didn't have the physical strength. Wel...
MARTHA MCSALLY Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means havi...
MARTHA BECK The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting.
MARTHA REEVES People love me everywhere. On an unofficial level, I'm an ambassador and a civil servant for Detroit...
MARTHA REEVES Dancing in the Streets.
MARTHA REEVES Him being hands-on helped us all prosper.
MARTHA REEVES Friends, there are many areas in which I need encouragement, but worrying is not one of them. I worr...
MARTHA BECK We go through a rigorous vetting process of products before they even get to Martha.
MARTHA STEWART Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams....
MARTHA BECK Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is...
MARTHA BECK We didn't wait for a holiday or a birthday or anything like that to get together. It was just the th...
MARTHA DAVIS