And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does.
Margaret Spellings
Related Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Nothing less than 7 inches. CASSANDRA CLARE I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it ... DANICA PATRICK I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's ... DAKOTA GOYO Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with P... ALICE EVE I think what he's - what he believes, and he may be correct, I don't know, that we have some... LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, ... JULIA ORMOND It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know ... ELLEN STOFAN I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina an... SCARLETT THOMAS If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I want to stick with movies, but I also want to stick with YouTube. I'm never going to give up Y... KIAN LAWLEY I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find str... ANDY BIERSACK I think it's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their c... ERIC SCHLOSSER If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what the... ADAM GRANT I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret At... CONOR OBERST I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even... TOM CRUISE People sometimes think of 'queen' as a title that's shrouded with protocol and formality... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES It's always inspiring to me to meet people who feel that they can make a difference in the world... MARIA SHRIVER I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do. J. J. WATT Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want t... DREW POMERANZ I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she w... CLAIRE FORLANI Every time I think I know what's right and wrong, I end up being wrong. All I want to do is expl... CAROLYN CHUTE What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's wha... PARKER POSEY I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don... MACKENZIE ROSMAN You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happe... TEA OBREHT If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can infl... TIGER WOODS I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Bro... BRENDAN O'CARROLL I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their ... HENRY KRAVIS I want to know everything there is to know about a specific area. And it's winning at that maste... BEN HUH I want to be on a show that's not sensitive to racial jokes; I want to be on one where they call... WALE Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age. STORMZY There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you... EVA LONGORIA The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It... TONY DUNGY 'Instructions Not Included' is proving that there is a huge Latin market that needs a specia... EUGENIO DERBEZ We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what t... JOHN MCCAIN I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a boo... DORIS LESSING I think he's Will 's partying a lot in Cabo. I think he's running a brothel. I don't... BRADLEY COOPER I'm human. I'm a person. I would love to be in a relationship with a man. I would love to fi... LARA GIDDINGS I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it... LAUREN DAIGLE The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to... WILLIAM FRIEDKIN I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't... CHARISMA CARPENTER I think the important part is picking clothes that are flattering to your figure, and obviously I wa... DANIELLE PANABAKER I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think... MAYA LIN You know what I'm intrigued by? Like, space and wormholes and Stephen Hawking's theories and... PEACHES GELDOF It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And t... STEVEN ADLER Life comes down to honesty and doing what's right. That's what's most important. BOB FELLER I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even ... K'NAAN I think that Batman loses his efficacy and mythology if he's got too many people around him. Tha... GREG RUCKA If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a great... MAGGIE SMITH The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?... DAVID MAMET I think Americans appreciate that my dad's a genuine guy. He's not gonna manicure every litt... DONALD TRUMP, JR. I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in co... TANANARIVE DUE It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de... DYLAN WALSH I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the w... LADY GAGA I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I&... DANNY DEVITO I don't know much about politics, but you have to look at it with the bigger picture and think w... MO FARAH I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's wha... JOHN MAYER When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to... MEREDITH MONK I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own lif... ZHANG ZIYI What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. EDITH EVANS I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what... ASAP ROCKY I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and ... JAKE OWEN The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and... GLORIA STEINEM I think one of the great dangers here is going and categorizing anybody from one religion as a terro... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG Your average person in Illinois doesn't really even know what workers' comp is. The average ... BRUCE RAUNER And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, beca... RAY LEWIS I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do. ROBERT MANKOFF It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they... ELLEN DEGENERES But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you r... FELICITY JONES I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older. CHERIE LUNGHI I don't think people need to know what colour socks I'm wearing today; I don't think peo... NOEL GALLAGHER Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I c... MICHAEL HANEKE What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging a... JOSS WHEDON Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for ... RON HOWARD Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we... AVA DUVERNAY If you do things to the limit, and don't purposely go over that limit, then I think it's fin... MICHAEL SCHUMACHER It's hard to explain to my parents what's going on. You can't compare Hollywood with Cub... ANA DE ARMAS I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it&... MARIA SEMPLE I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with h... JONATHAN KROHN If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you... DOROTHY STRATTEN Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteou... KATE CHRISTENSEN I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w... FRANCIS COLLINS In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what ... TED DEUTCH In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally r... LIAM NEESON I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their ta... BILL KELLER I don't think I've found the perfect job for me, but I know what I like, so that's halfw... COLLEEN HASKELL If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's goin... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. ... FELICITY JONES But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going ... KRISTEN STEWART We all act like we know everything in life, but nobody really does. That's what I want people to... ALESSIA CARA Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a kno... JOSH GAD I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup i... WALTER ISAACSON There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood's kind of a throwback... MONICA POTTER It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day... AUBREY PEEPLES I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondl... JONI MITCHELL I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than... MICHELLE WILLIAMS It's really hard to figure out what they need to know. And that's parenting, in general. It&... JOHN ROSS BOWIE
More Margaret Spellings
And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ... MARGARET SPELLINGS In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they wa... MARGARET SPELLINGS For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that. MARGARET SPELLINGS There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing... MARGARET SPELLINGS I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. MARGARET SPELLINGS It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college. MARGARET SPELLINGS I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking. MARGARET SPELLINGS We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civ... MARGARET SPELLINGS But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holdi... MARGARET SPELLINGS Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil... MARGARET SPELLINGS We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ... MARGARET SPELLINGS We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t... MARGARET SPELLINGS I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa... MARGARET SPELLINGS The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs. MARGARET SPELLINGS I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and... MARGARET SPELLINGS What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. MARGARET SPELLINGS Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve... MARGARET SPELLINGS My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat... MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular... MARGARET SPELLINGS Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number ... MARGARET SPELLINGS The thing about Harriet is, it wasn't about Harriet, ... To her, it was a matter of moving the grist... MARGARET SPELLINGS Also, make sure your children are challenged make sure they are bringing more and more rigorous w... MARGARET SPELLINGS m working with the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Response in order to find ways that w... MARGARET SPELLINGS I shouldn´t be talking about the details that I´m in negotiations with the White House and the (Ca... MARGARET SPELLINGS it's all hands on deck, absolutely. MARGARET SPELLINGS I shouldn't be talking about the details that I'm in negotiations with the White House and the (Capi... MARGARET SPELLINGS We don't want to write off this school year academically for these kids, and shouldn't, at least not... MARGARET SPELLINGS I see lots of support for it in the states. I think smart governors know, all governors know, that i... MARGARET SPELLINGS implement this law in a sensible and workable way. MARGARET SPELLINGS Studies show that when you put a bunch of these trailers in an area, crime will be high and it's goi... JASON SPELLINGS This is a trial run. We've worked on it day and night. But you could build one faster with the plans... JASON SPELLINGS There has been a little bit of sticker shock, but everyone seems to have a positive outlook. I do th... JASON SPELLINGS If we can sell the concept, a lot of them would be built eventually. JASON SPELLINGS Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same... MARGARET CHO I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ... MARGARET MEAD I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques. MARGARET QUALLEY If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. MARGARET FULLER The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build. MARGARET THATCHER Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. MARGARET THATCHER No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An... MARGARET THATCHER I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway... MARGARET THATCHER Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd. MARGARET THATCHER There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. MARGARET THATCHER There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty. MARGARET THATCHER To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it fu... MARGARET THATCHER Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both ... MARGARET THATCHER It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs. MARGARET THATCHER What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing... MARGARET THATCHER Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those ... MARGARET CAVENDISH Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. MARGARET MEAD Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. MARGARET MEAD It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a... MARGARET MEAD One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home... MARGARET MEAD Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ... MARGARET MEAD Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire. MARGARET MEAD We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ... MARGARET MEAD Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom... MARGARET MEAD I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son... MARGARET WALKER Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ... MARGARET WALKER The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. MARGARET WALKER What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. MARGARET MEAD My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at? MARGARET SMITH Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. MARGARET THATCHER Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. MARGARET ATWOOD Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan. MARGARET THATCHER Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist. MARGARET ATWOOD Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ... MARGARET ATWOOD My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r... MARGARET WALKER A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. MARGARET ATWOOD If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz... MARGARET ATWOOD If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. MARGARET THATCHER The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many... MARGARET ATWOOD A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. MARGARET THATCHER I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w... MARGARET THATCHER An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. MARGARET ATWOOD If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. MARGARET ATWOOD Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be... MARGARET ATWOOD I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,... MARGARET ATWOOD When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. MARGARET ATWOOD You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit... MARGARET ATWOOD Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo... MARGARET ATWOOD Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ... MARGARET ATWOOD Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w... MARGARET MITCHELL It was better to know the worst than to wonder. MARGARET MITCHELL My dear, I don't give a damn. MARGARET MITCHELL Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you... MARGARET MITCHELL Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them. MARGARET MITCHELL So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo... MARGARET STOHL Don't let the bastards grind you down. MARGARET ATWOOD When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict. MARGARET ATWOOD Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. MARGARET HEFFERNAN Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. MARGARET FULLER Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar... MARGARET MEAD I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a... MARGARET CHO At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,... MARGARET CHAN Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let... MARGARET BECKETT Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. MARGARET HEFFERNAN The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ... MARGARET ATWOOD People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you... MARGARET THATCHER My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years. MARGARET ANDERSON It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st... MARGARET GELLER You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev... MARGARET WEIS I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and lea... MARGARET THATCHER This lady is not for turning. MARGARET THATCHER Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to Engla... MARGARET ATWOOD They've removed anything you can tie a rope to. MARGARET ATWOOD Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all... MARGARET ATWOOD No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one. MARGARET ATWOOD The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ... MARGARET ATWOOD I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver. MARGARET THATCHER I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and fla... MARGARET ANDERSON I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attrac... MARGARET STOHL There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hot... MARGARET STOHL The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg. MARGARET THATCHER If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa... MARGARET THATCHER Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live. MARGARET FULLER This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow. MARGARET LINDSEY Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold. MARGARET FULLER If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a... MARGARET CHO Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. ... MARGARET THATCHER I owe nothing to Women's Lib. MARGARET THATCHER Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in yo... MARGARET THATCHER Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c... MARGARET ATWOOD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g... MARGARET MEAD If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying. MARGARET MITCHELL Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time. MARGARET MEAD I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t... MARGARET MITCHELL Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth. MARGARET THATCHER I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not al... MARGARET THATCHER Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. MARGARET THATCHER One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all ... MARGARET THATCHER In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken. MARGARET VALOIS Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is t... MARGARET MEAD I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person. MARGARET MEAD The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilizati... MARGARET MEAD Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,... MARGARET ATWOOD Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children. MARGARET MEAD You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. MARGARET THATCHER I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce. MARGARET MEAD Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. MARGARET MEAD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ... MARGARET MEAD Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything. MARGARET MEAD Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. MARGARET MEAD If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ... MARGARET MEAD We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. MARGARET MEAD If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting
values, we must recognize the whole gamu... MARGARET MEAD Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ... MARGARET WEIS If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher. MARGARET THATCHER The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t... MARGARET THATCHER It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marchin... MARGARET THATCHER In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. MARGARET THATCHER Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla... MARGARET MITCHELL Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi... MARGARET THATCHER Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ... MARGARET MITCHELL Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ... MARGARET ATWOOD Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. MARGARET ATWOOD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i... MARGARET MEAD Longed for him. Got him. Shit. MARGARET ATWOOD Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. MARGARET MEAD If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ... MARGARET ATWOOD But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve... MARGARET ATWOOD I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an... MARGARET ATWOOD I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo... MARGARET ATWOOD Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. MARGARET THATCHER If i thought this would never happen again I would die. But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac... MARGARET ATWOOD Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. MARGARET MITCHELL Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic... MARGARET ATWOOD That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an... MARGARET ATWOOD There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a... MARGARET ATWOOD Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N. Aunt Grace leaned closer to the boar... MARGARET STOHL We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr... MARGARET ATWOOD But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it... MARGARET ATWOOD Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat... MARGARET ATWOOD The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual... MARGARET MITCHELL Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ... MARGARET MEAD To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society. MARGARET OLIPHANT The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ... MARGARET OLIPHANT Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual... MARGARET FULLER One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. MARGARET THATCHER For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder... MARGARET MEAD Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g... MARGARET HALSEY People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa... MARGARET THATCHER I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. MARGARET THATCHER Nature provides exceptions to every rule. MARGARET FULLER The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. MARGARET DRABBLE The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly... MARGARET MITCHELL I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. MARGARET THATCHER Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto... MARGARET MEAD Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite... MARGARET MEAD When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ... MARGARET MEAD People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky... MARGARET MEAD I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. MARGARET FULLER Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi... MARGARET THATCHER Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi... MARGARET BROWNLEY What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre... MARGARET MITCHELL The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words.... MARGARET OLIPHANT The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling? MARGARET GATTY I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a... MARGARET THATCHER