Anzia Yezierska quote: "A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother."

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a ...
ANZIA YEZIERSKA

For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA

You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER

My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I hated all my life. I hated everybody. When I first grew up and I can remember, I was dressed as a ...
HENRY LEE LUCAS

Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE

There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES

You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of...
SHEMAR MOORE

I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned...
KELLAN LUTZ

As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust ...
DAVID MACKENZIE

How can I believe the people that say women have equal rights? When the worst insult a man can be ca...
LAURA BATES

The New Testament doesn't present Jesus as a single man to cover up his humanity. It presents hi...
JOHN ORTBERG

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

I used to think I grew up to be a man because I never really had a dad, and my mother was always at ...
(I.V.) EDWARD ANDREW MOLNAR IV

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have t...
J.D. SALINGER

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.
ROMA DOWNEY

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going ...
HULK HOGAN

I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can ...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA

I really, really like Nicole Richie, and the only reason why I always bring her up is because I'...
TIA MOWRY

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up i...
CORNEL WEST

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was g...
MICHAEL HANEKE

Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love...
NANCY KERRIGAN

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt ...
DIABLO CODY

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man...
KURT RUSSELL

True Love has many forms. But my true love is her...and her name is B.D.C she is an amazing girl who...
MICHAEL HENDERSON

It's really interesting having him, as his style of play is so different from what we have around he...
BILL BLACKWELL

An Innocent Man Is Never Frightened By the Truth; But A Guilty Man Will Try To Hide It As Long As He...
PATTY RASE HOPSON

The more I get to know him, the more I can feel my heart opening without my control. I always wanted...
NIKKI ROWE

I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d...
AVA DUVERNAY

I want to wake up next to what I went to bed with. I need a girl who can get dressed up to come with...
PAUL WALKER

As I look at President Bush, I think he will ultimately be judged as a man of extremely high charact...
TOMMY FRANKS

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in ...
ALLY SHEEDY

I like to style myself, as my first job out of university was working at 'Vogue' magazine in...
CARLY STEEL

A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
MAUREEN JOHNSON

Man, I'm messed up right now. My best friend is my father? The man I idolized as a kid... whose tatt...
SHERRILYN KENYON

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
JEANNE MOREAU

I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I wa...
JACKIE EVANCHO

I have always loved rock music. But I have played country music since my senior year in high school....
TRACY BYRD

Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can ...
GARRY SHANDLING

If a man is secure enough to allow his partner to go out and express herself, and if he does not fee...
ARJUN KAPOOR

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh...
JOAN COLLINS

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to h...
HULK HOGAN

My ultimate style pin up is a tough question because my own style is influenced by so many sources. ...
BEHATI PRINSLOO

I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON

I don't need a man. But I'm happier with one. I like to have someone I can touch and squeeze...
CHER

My standard for the women in my life is like, 'If no man can treat you better than I can treat y...
ALDIS HODGE

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS

I played a long time, had a great career up to this point, and can walk away with my head as high as...
BRETT FAVRE

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how qu...
JOE BIDEN

I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

I wasn't brought up as a society girl to go to balls and be a debutante and marry the social set...
LAUREN BACALL

I'm not entangled in a bunch of lawsuits and a web that I can't get out of. I can hold my he...
PRINCE

I've always had an affinity with women. It probably started with my mother when I was young, but...
MARIO TESTINO

I can't say I'm a Bond girl because I'm too mature to be a Bond girl. I say Bond lady; B...
MONICA BELLUCCI

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man...
ZOSIA MAMET

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he...
ELVIS PRESLEY

“Many women's goal is to be the center of attention, when they get fame and catch men eyes its whe...
JOANNA AJ

Irrespective of who's up against me at tournaments, I have always relied completely on my own st...
CHEN LONG

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Mate...
NATALIE DORMER

In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN

I have four boys and one girl. My daughter is my only little girl and I just love her to death. I ca...
DWIGHT HENRY

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destinati...
JIMMY DEAN

Fortunately, my husband is an Anglophile. He even loves public transport and travelling on the Tube....
HELEN MIRREN

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
ALAN PATON

I'll never forget the time my mother showed up with her best friend and two daughters, and all f...
BLAKE LIVELY

Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED

If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...

Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER

Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER

To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someon...
JOE NAMATH

On my own or with a friend, I'm a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the ...
EMILIA FOX

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON

My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give...
PARVESH CHEENA

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and
he wi...
STEPHEN R. COVEY

The beauty myth sets it up this way: A high rating as an art object is the most valuable tribute a w...
NAOMI WOLF

My mother told me that my birth mother got pregnant by a married man who didn't want to leave hi...
ELLEN ULLMAN

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she ...
CHER

As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if ...
TODD BURPO

I am training at such a high level that I actually could eat anything and get by. But as my coach al...
LOLO JONES

When I was a young man, my mother said to me, 'You can't be a communist without being a mili...
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN

I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controve...
AMITABH BACHCHAN

So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can&...
DRAYMOND GREEN

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a st...
BOZ SCAGGS

My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the n...
KALLAM ANJI REDDY

I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because...
MICHELLE KWAN

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i...
DARREN ARONOFSKY

Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ...
E. W. HOWE

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to ...
EDGAR WATSON HOWE

In high school for prom, I asked my girlfriend - we were both into horror movies - by dressing up as...
JUSTICE SMITH

All military events are always free, but there are limited seats. We encourage people to get those p...
ED COLSON

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

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A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

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