Founding Sisters and the 19th Amendment,
Eleanor Clift
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The Founding Fathers provided a way to reverse unpopular Supreme Court decisions: a constitutional a...
MAX BAUCUS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
ELEANOR CLIFT If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are st...
ELEANOR CLIFT It's obvious that the local and state authorities were overwhelmed... and that the federal governmen...
ELEANOR CLIFT There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the f...
ELEANOR CLIFT The blame game is a derogatory term for accountability and we've had failures on the part of governm...
ELEANOR CLIFT I was living out a parallel situation in my own life, ... feeding frenzy.
ELEANOR CLIFT It's a complicated set of opinions that women bring to the voting booth.
ELEANOR CLIFT If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
ELEANOR CLIFT If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contem...
ELEANOR CLIFT Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who ...
ELEANOR CLIFT Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the exte...
ELEANOR CLIFT Bush is good at stating the obviously untrue.
ELEANOR CLIFT The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly shor...
ELEANOR CLIFT He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
RAINBOW ROWELL Virginia has an interesting history. We didn't ratify the 19th Amendment giving women the right to v...
HOLLY HATCHER is the foundation of our judicial system as well as the founding of our nation, and that to remove i...
BRIAN CHAVEZ You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard...
RAINBOW ROWELL That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
RAINBOW ROWELL It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
RAINBOW ROWELL Ni siquiera puedo respirar cuando no estamos juntos —susurró ella—. Y eso significa que, cuando...
RAINBOW ROWELL I DIDN’T WRITE THEM A HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE 17-YEAR-OLDS DON’T GET ENDINGS.
THEY GET BEGINN...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.
RAINBOW ROWELL It's our last chance.
No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last ...
RAINBOW ROWELL The observance does not only recognize (the passage of the 19th Amendment) but also commemorates the...
WILLIAM DAVIS I'd like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen.
MATT BOMER «Qualunque cosa succeda, io non tornerò mai a casa» disse lei risoluta.
«Lo so.»
Ele...
RAINBOW ROWELL The world turned itself into a better place around him.
RAINBOW ROWELL The only person I know who is in worse shape than I am (on Montgomery Clift).
MARILYN MONROE It's going to be okay," Park said.
She nodded. "Right."
"Because I love you."<...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too... That sounds bad, like ...
RAINBOW ROWELL He smiled, surprised. 'This is for me?'
'No,' she said, 'it's...' She couldn't think of anythin...
RAINBOW ROWELL She was pretty sure she’d thank him for saving her life. Not just yesterday, but, like practically...
RAINBOW ROWELL He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.
RAINBOW ROWELL Eleanor's sisters all murmured their assent, making her heart swell with love. She was so lucky to h...
MEGAN FRAMPTON From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Eve...
NOAH FELDMAN I mean, the actors that I admired were Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, an actress named Barbara Har...
ROBERT DE NIRO I don't even know what it means to be Korean..." he said.
"Well, I don't know what it mea...
RAINBOW ROWELL He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in...
RAINBOW ROWELL What were the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever...
RAINBOW ROWELL No matter what happens," Park said, "I love you.
RAINBOW ROWELL This kiss had to last Park forever.
It had to get him home.
He needed to remember it when ...
RAINBOW ROWELL You look like you," he said. "You with the volume turned up.
RAINBOW ROWELL Are you sure you want them to meet me?" she asked.
"Yes," he said. "I want everyone to me...
RAINBOW ROWELL Go on and honk," Eleanor said. "You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I...
RAINBOW ROWELL I didn’t write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don’t get endings.
They get beginni...
RAINBOW ROWELL It is perfectly serendipitous,' said the boy, descending the steps to the street. 'Fancy that—us m...
ELEANOR CATTON I'm not up for changing the Tenth Amendment or the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment or ...
ANDREW BREITBART Puede que Park la hubiera paralizado con su magia ninja, con su toque vulcano y estuviera a punto de...
RAINBOW ROWELL [In the 1979 miniseries] Backstairs at the White House, ... Eleanor.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.
MIKE WALLACE The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share o...
MIRIAM TOEWS I feel that the Second Amendment is the right to keep and bear arms for our citizenry. This not for ...
SHARRON ANGLE I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I...
RAINBOW ROWELL There's not such thing as handsome princes, she told herself.
There's no such thing as happily ...
RAINBOW ROWELL Good-bye." she said. "Good-bye, Park."
"Good-bye, Eleanor. You know, until tonight. When ...
RAINBOW ROWELL That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
RAINBOW ROWELL But..." I'm not ready for you to stop being my problem.
"It makes more sense, Park. If yo...
RAINBOW ROWELL I just can't believe that life would give us to each other," he said, "and then take it back."
...
RAINBOW ROWELL The whole freedom-of-speech thing is great. But I don't think that our Founding Fathers predicte...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON Cowell Devlin sighed. Yes, he understood Anna Wetherell at long last, but it was not a happy underst...
ELEANOR CATTON We are angels just like the rest of our brothers and sisters.
JAY WOODMAN We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.
PAUL RYAN You never get the totality of Eleanor in The Lion In Winter,
JEAN LECLERC And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him.
Something always did.
RAINBOW ROWELL They shared a look, and Tess felt a wave of emotion. How quickly she'd found an affinity with Isabel...
SUSAN WIGGS You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one�...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I'm going to tell Mrs. Burt that my mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen,"...
RAINBOW ROWELL Your fangs are showing, Miss Lyndon."
"Are they?" she asked, reaching up to touch her fac...
JULIA QUINN Am I not allowed to speak in hyperbole?"
"Only," he said, a bit too smoothly, "if you are...
JULIA QUINN Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's h...
LAVYRLE SPENCER It was true in the 19th century, and it's true today.
LAWRENCE M. OTTER Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
JANE AUSTEN It?s tough. She and I are sisters and you know how sisters fight.
ASHLEY FIORE You probably have the right to disclose them, guaranteed by the First Amendment, but that’s no gua...
KENNETH EADE No se había dado cuenta de Omaha fuera un sitio tan bonito. (Mentalmente, le atribuía el mérito a...
RAINBOW ROWELL fine wines, jewelry, Western furniture, and 19th century paintings.
HENRY HOWARD SBR participated in both 19th Ward House tours as well as in the 19th Ward Community Center - we hel...
DANA EISENBERG What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it...
RAINBOW ROWELL History teacher Mrs. (Eleanor) Glass inspired her to look beyond Michigan.
DAN BOONE My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. On Eleanor Roosevelt
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the
comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.
CLAIRE BOOTH LUCE "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Very pretty, very romantic 19th century.
MARIO BUATTA Here comes your 19th nervous breakdown.
CRAIG LITTLEPAGE Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
Decca: sisters are life's cruel ad...
MARY S. LOVELL I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
ROY HARPER The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights...
NAOMI WOLF Welcome back to the 19th Century in Erie County,
DENNIS WARD Eleanor is more vibrant than any female icon in our own century,
JEAN LECLERC The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and...
NAOMI WOLF At the age of fifty-six Eleanor Stoddard was still a beautiful woman. She owned three hotels in Fran...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD Let's make a game of it, shall we?" she said. "Whoever kills the most, wins."
"I will kill twe...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so c...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damne...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.
ELEANOR CATTON I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas.
ELEANOR MONDALE A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I make bad choices. I've got such dodgy tastes in men.
ELEANOR MONDALE Writing is exhilarating, but reading reviews is not. I've been really devastated by 'good...
ELEANOR CATTON When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner o...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and...
ELEANOR CATTON I think that's what fiction writing is actually all about. It's about trying to solve proble...
ELEANOR CATTON I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for th...
ELEANOR FARJEON Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
ELEANOR FARJEON The changes are long overdue at this point. And yet, despite the fact that the commission found sign...
ELEANOR ACER One of the biggest problems is that it lacks any meaningful safeguards, so that mistakes can and do ...
ELEANOR ACER It's become much more difficult to win asylum and if an immigration officer issues a mistaken decisi...
ELEANOR ACER This country was founded on the concept of asylum that you never return those who flee persecution t...
ELEANOR ACER The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than mos...
ELEANOR MONDALE To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe wha...
ELEANOR CATTON We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fea...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You cant live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT If someone betrays you once, its their fault; if they betray you twice, its your fault.
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