All the backpedaling and backstepping that goes on with powerful women today, with Hillary Clinton saying she could have stayed home and baked cookies and blah blah blah, and then offending everybody so that she had to say that she does, in fact, *love* to make cookies, loves it almost as much as she likes to trade agricultural futures. I mean, what is that about? All this I'm really a lady, I'm really a nice girl crap- who needs it? It really is nothing more than surrender.
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ELIZABETH ESTY I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting ro... ELIZABETH MERIWETHER The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstab... ELIZABETH GILBERT I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got ask... ELIZABETH BERKLEY Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body im... ELIZABETH BERKLEY I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ELIZABETH GASKELL The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion. ELIZABETH DREW The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in... ELIZABETH DREW As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive... ELIZABETH KOSTOVA To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! ELIZABETH GASKELL The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it... ELIZABETH HARDWICK I have children, and this notion - that there might be a single book that introduces children to lit... ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ... ELIZABETH GASKELL I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say. ELIZABETH GASKELL Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngster... ELIZABETH II If we could simply live in the light of our bodies being temples of the Holy Spirit, our daily life ... ELIZABETH GEORGE Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult. ELIZABETH KAY perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it. my world just... ELIZABETH KAY You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide ELIZABETH KAY Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because wome... ELIZABETH HURLEY Minds ripen at very different ages. ELIZABETH MONTAGU My two big date deal breakers are someone with no sense of humor and someone who chews badly. I will... ELIZABETH GILLIES You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal. ELIZABETH TAYLOR