As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.
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I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ... JANE GOODALL What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. JANE GOODALL There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled... JANE GOODALL My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. JANE GOODALL People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want b... JANE GOODALL The greatest danger to our future is apathy. JANE GOODALL Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good ... JANE GOODALL There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective... JANE GOODALL My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you... 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JANE GOODALL The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. JANE GOODALL If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never g... JANE GOODALL If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the anim... JANE GOODALL I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Doolittle. JANE GOODALL Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. JANE GOODALL Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my lif... JANE GOODALL Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you... JANE GOODALL Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who be... JANE GOODALL I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew u... 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JANE LEVY You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor... JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha... JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are! JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise. JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But... JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ... JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ... JANE AUSTEN Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh... JANE JACOBS A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ... JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces... JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, ... JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f... JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked... JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N... JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to... JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic... JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ... JANE JOHNSON We are all fools in love JANE AUSTEN ....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her ... JANE AUSTEN What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I p... JANE AUSTEN Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals cor... JANE AUSTEN Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has f... JANE AUSTEN I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit. JANE AUSTEN If I am a wild Beast I cannot help it. It is not my own fault. JANE AUSTEN