It's quite the opposite. They've risen up the corporate ladder and achieved some success, they're happy with what they've accomplished at work, they've had their children, and now there's this 'Now what?' question. 'Do I want something more? Different? What do I want that's going to give me a sense of meaning and purpose?' I've actually had patients make radical changes. One woman left her job as CEO of a company and opened a craft shop.


Karen Zager

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

It's quite the opposite, ... They've risen up the corporate ladder and achieved some success, they'r...
KAREN ZAGER
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Theyve got the experience and know what it takes to build a temporary city.
TOM CLARK
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT
I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing...
BEN HOROWITZ
[That could be the situation throughout the game, but Razorbacks defensive backs coach Bobby Allen s...
BOBBY ALLEN
Hopefully this is the payoff of all the work everybodys been doing for where were taking the DC Univ...
GEOFF JOHNS
Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS
I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS
I had a happy marriage and a nice wife. I accomplished everything you can. What more can you want?
MAX SCHMELING
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS
The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is ...
NANDAN NILEKANI
Still having ‘a thing’ for her implies I had her at one time and have experiences that give foun...
TEMPLE CARVER
How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not au...
OPRAH WINFREY
How do you give smart, accomplished, ambitious women the same opportunities as men to reach their go...
GAIL COLLINS
People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Packard is on the agenda to make a presentation to the Planning Board to show that theyve met the co...
MARK WEAVER
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS
He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS
I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS
What I want to emphasize is that this is a victim of a homicide. This is a woman with children, with...
CARY GOLDSTEIN
When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success thing. Now I&...
JOHN GLOVER
A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what...
SYD BARRETT
You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE
Listen, Christ,You did alright in your day, I reckonBut that days gone now. They ghosted you up a sw...
LANGSTON HUGHES
What do you want from me! i want more then i have and for that i feel guilty, like I'm supposed to h...
STUART STOKES
Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
~WALT DISNEY
After the storm I got to thinking, 'What would I do?' ... I just want to be able to do something. Ma...
FRANK FLOYD
What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not...
DIANE CHAMBERLAIN
I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I starte...
BARBARA CORCORAN
God wonderfully made you different; you must make a wonderful difference !
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON
If you always do what you've always done , then you'll always get what you always got . . .and while...
TONY NCIS
I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but th...
TODD MCFARLANE
Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is t...
JIM VALVANO
I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine an...
PERSIS KHAMBATTA
but the question of what to do with Bennett now is a whole different issue.
DONNA KELLY
It's been hectic. It's different. I used to kinda get looked at. Now, it's more of, like, a stare. I...
PAULA CREAMER
He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY
Some react to it by protecting their children and providing cocoons around their children. And some ...
JANICE WOOD
Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER
There's plenty of awareness. The question is, what do we do now? The answer has to be something othe...
BARBARA BRENNER
They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR
I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ...
FATIMA SIAD
I wish she had half a clue what seeing that happy face does for me. I can't quite explain it to myse...
MELYSSA WINCHESTER
Then one day in 1992 out of the clear blue I got a call from a woman who wanted me to speak with her...
DEAN CHASE
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
[Except one.] I do sometimes now wish I had stuck it out with Rangers a bit longer when you consider...
ALEX MCLEISH
[Bush also defended the] Mission Accomplished ... People make a big deal out of it. It was not a mis...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
He played well, ... You have your ups and you have your downs, and he had more ups than downs. That'...
AARON GLENN
He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on th...
T.H. WHITE
So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms...
BILL SIENKIEWICZ
She was not as stupid as some I have had, and better company, but still perhaps her going was for th...
KAREN CUSHMAN
Man is a breathing DUST, while woman is a breathing BONE
SOTONYE ANGA
No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g...
KATE WALSH
Just to be here right now, to still have the chance to be what I want to be and do what I want to do...
DAVIS NWANKWO
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
I was extremely proud at halftime. Now the game wasn't even over so I was trying to hide my pride be...
DANIELLE CHAISSON
The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pio...
JIM ELLIOT
A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA
Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I ...
DAVE DAVIES
She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
With Rex coming back in, they opened the offense up a lot more. That helped me out because that's wh...
BERNARD BERRIAN
It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I�...
EMMA WATSON
It is so hard to be a girl and want what you have never had. To be a child and want what you cannot ...
DOROTHY ALLISON
I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
CRAIG NEWMARK
I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted ...
MARKUS ZUSAK
So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television...
MICHAEL J. FOX
It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS
Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER
Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that,' and then you do it. It&...
ALESSIA CARA
I want to do more theatre work, so I'm going back to school to learn my craft. Being a mother has to...
DONNA AIR
I do think we, the president, all of us need to do a better job, do more, ... why we have made this ...
TRENT LOTT
What do you want me to say, Elli, I’m sorry? I’m sorry for feeling the way I do? Sorry for wanti...
TONI ALEO
I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I lov...
AYUMI HAMASAKI
More than anything I want to be on a team that I can help win. You want to feel like you're a part o...
KOYIE HILL
I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS
We have the winning spirit on the inside because we were brought up as winners. Some of these athlet...
DEBRA ALEXANDER
One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite d...
PABLO PICASSO
Who knows what I want to do? Who knows what anyone wants to do? How can you be sure about something ...
DON DELILLO
And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my m...
SAM DONALDSON
It's actually been really great. The kids are fun to work with and the kids actually do listen to wh...
ADAM GREENE
Kiera Michelle Allen, my life was empty before you stepped into it. I thought I had everything I nee...
S.C. STEPHENS
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and ma...
SUSAN SARANDON
I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Some business coaches may disagree with me, but I wholeheartedly teach my community to start busines...
KEVIN J. DONALDSON
Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could ...
JACQUELINE RAYNER
Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. More and more and more.
ALLY CONDIE
Don’t waste your time trying to impress others to satisfy their ego. do what you love & love what ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
When I know what to do, everything is so easy.
LORRIN L. LEE

More Karen Zager

If you have a table and you prop it up on two legs, it'll tip over,
KAREN ZAGER
It's quite the opposite, ... They've risen up the corporate ladder and achieved some success, they'r...
KAREN ZAGER
Relationships, career, aging, empty-nest syndrome, health and, most importantly, money issues.
KAREN ZAGER
Women should look at the different supports that are balancing out the table of their lives and ask ...
KAREN ZAGER
After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the...
KAREN DECROW
How did abortion and birth control impact the congressional race of Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle...
KAREN DECROW
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
KAREN BLACK
We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the fu...
KAREN KAIN
Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.
KAREN KAIN
Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
KAREN KAIN
The facts are on our side.
KAREN HUGHES
We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
KAREN HUGHES
And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to mem...
KAREN HUGHES
I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
KAREN HUGHES
Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
KAREN HUGHES
For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Co...
KAREN HUGHES
I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered hi...
KAREN HUGHES
I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a...
KAREN HUGHES
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
KAREN HUGHES
Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly ru...
KAREN HUGHES
I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigor...
KAREN HUGHES
In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris,...
KAREN HUGHES
The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work ...
KAREN HUGHES
Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to rea...
KAREN HUGHES
As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
KAREN HUGHES
The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
KAREN HUGHES
Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
KAREN HORNEY
Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
KAREN HORNEY
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
KAREN HORNEY
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural labore...
KAREN HESSE
Young readers are the most challenging, demanding, and rewarding of audiences. Adults often ask why ...
KAREN HESSE
From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive an...
KAREN HESSE
While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an amb...
KAREN HESSE
In life, sometimes you just lose.
KAREN HANDEL
Any real Colts fan cannot abide the Denver Broncos and John Elway!
KAREN HANDEL
I don't want to see any taxpayer funding going towards... a couple that is not married.
KAREN HANDEL
I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married,...
KAREN HANDEL
I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich...
KAREN HANDEL
Let me be clear: since I am pro-life, I do not support the mission of Planned Parenthood.
KAREN HANDEL
I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not thro...
KAREN HANDEL
It's been clear for some time that FBI Director Comey has lost the confidence of Republicans, De...
KAREN HANDEL
Sometimes you should just put down the computer, the phone, and walk away.
KAREN HANDEL
People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.
KAREN HANDEL
These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should n...
KAREN HANDEL
Clearly, there have been changes in the climate.
KAREN HANDEL
I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
KAREN HANDEL
Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
KAREN HANDEL
It's clear that Planned Parenthood went out of its way to paint me as some sort of a zealot - a ...
KAREN HANDEL
I think it's clear that Planned Parenthood has worked to mislead the public about who they are.....
KAREN HANDEL
Bullies always have another target.
KAREN HANDEL
I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, s...
KAREN HANDEL
I think, for every phase of your life, you take something out of it, you learn from it, you grow fro...
KAREN HANDEL
I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
KAREN HANDEL
It's tabloid. It's 24/7 news - people get in the middle of a news cycle for 24 hours off of ...
KAREN HANDEL
Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
KAREN HANDEL
I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
KAREN HANDEL
I do not support a livable wage.
KAREN HANDEL
We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because...
KAREN HANDEL
I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks lik...
KAREN GILLAN
My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a li...
KAREN GILLAN
I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and ...
KAREN GILLAN
I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the dif...
KAREN GILLAN
The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many p...
KAREN GILLAN
I wanted to be as authentic as possible because, first of all, Jean Shrimpton is still alive. And, s...
KAREN GILLAN
Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes.
KAREN GILLAN
I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never...
KAREN GILLAN
I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't...
KAREN GILLAN
I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
KAREN GILLAN
I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make my...
KAREN GILLAN
I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
KAREN GILLAN
I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal li...
KAREN GILLAN
I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that...
KAREN GILLAN
Being in 'Doctor Who' has been so amazing. I don't think I will ever have a job quite so...
KAREN GILLAN
Acting is all about finding the truth within whatever world you're in.
KAREN GILLAN
I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit ...
KAREN GILLAN
I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
KAREN GILLAN
How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you ...
KAREN GILLAN
Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
KAREN GILLAN
I like being involved in interesting and creative things. I'd just rather be involved in creatin...
KAREN GILLAN
I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or br...
KAREN GILLAN
It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work ou...
KAREN GILLAN
I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in ...
KAREN GILLAN
I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
KAREN GILLAN
I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass...
KAREN GILLAN
I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is...
KAREN FINERMAN
I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a hig...
KAREN FINERMAN
Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, b...
KAREN FINERMAN
Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The k...
KAREN FINERMAN
I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing ...
KAREN FINERMAN
I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no cu...
KAREN FINERMAN
Every day, turn off your phone/email for some part of the day.
KAREN FINERMAN
I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he...
KAREN FINERMAN
Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of ...
KAREN FINERMAN
You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
KAREN FINERMAN
As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, th...
KAREN FINERMAN
I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my...
KAREN FINERMAN
Women should learn from men to compartmentalize. It's a great skill that some women have natural...
KAREN FINERMAN
I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I ...
KAREN FINERMAN
Maintaining boundaries is hard. That's why I strongly prefer the physical separation of work and...
KAREN FINERMAN
When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turne...
KAREN FINERMAN
I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel quali...
KAREN FINERMAN
Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.
KAREN FINERMAN
I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortu...
KAREN FINERMAN
When you multitask, you believe you're being exceptionally productive, but really, you're fo...
KAREN FINERMAN
Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why b...
KAREN FINERMAN
Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
KAREN FINERMAN
As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A...
KAREN FINERMAN
Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse fo...
KAREN FINERMAN
It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, ...
KAREN FINERMAN
I'm pretty obsessed with 'The Real Housewives of New Jersey.' I usually watch it on the ...
KAREN FAIRCHILD
I like for my home to reflect my fashion. I love adding earthy pieces to something very glamorous, a...
KAREN FAIRCHILD
Music can be such a vulnerable thing, so when you're delivering a vocal or writing a piece of mu...
KAREN FAIRCHILD
My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always...
KAREN FAIRCHILD
The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration...
KAREN FAIRCHILD
There's nothing better than a glass of wine, a girlfriend, and a long talk.
KAREN FAIRCHILD
I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel ...
KAREN ELSON
I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
KAREN ELSON
Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outca...
KAREN ELSON
I was always the weirdo at school.
KAREN ELSON
Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
KAREN ELSON
I am a woman. I go on set, and I'll be who I am, and I'll represent who I am. I think it com...
KAREN ELSON
There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't ...
KAREN ELSON
I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became ...
KAREN ELSON
It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long,...
KAREN ELSON
It's just this huge sense of relief I have with myself right now... It took me to be 31 to go, &...
KAREN ELSON
I knew I had more in me than just standing up and having my picture taken... Being in the studio, I ...
KAREN ELSON
I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It...
KAREN ELSON
Research on the Internet, research what people say about the vintage stores, look online to see if c...
KAREN ELSON
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to wor...
KAREN ELSON
Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. Y...
KAREN ELSON
I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. ...
KAREN ELSON
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
KAREN ELSON
I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancho...
KAREN ELSON
I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so...
KAREN ELSON
I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
KAREN ELSON
I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guest...
KAREN ELSON
I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of...
KAREN ELSON
As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it...
KAREN ELSON
I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and ...
KAREN ELSON
The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
KAREN ELSON
I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
KAREN DUFFY
You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
KAREN DUFFY
My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf ...
KAREN DUFFY
I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jok...
KAREN DUFFY
I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'...
KAREN DUFFY
I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow a...
KAREN DUFFY
In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to ge...
KAREN DUFFY
I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-h...
KAREN DUFFY
My family has been amazing, and they understand how blessed I am. They've been able to keep my s...
KAREN DUFFY
Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.
KAREN DUFFY
In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to...
KAREN DUFFY
A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn'...
KAREN DUFFY
The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not ab...
KAREN DUFFY
It is a mistake to do nothing just because you think you can only do a little.
KAREN DUFFY
I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
KAREN DUFFY
I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds o...
KAREN DUFFY
Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.
KAREN DUFFY
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't tak...
KAREN DUFFY
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's...
KAREN DUFFY
My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some...
KAREN DUFFY
The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual ch...
KAREN DUFFY
It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to m...
KAREN DUFFY
In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
KAREN DUFFY
When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things ...
KAREN BLIXEN
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows ...
KAREN BLIXEN
I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
KAREN BLACK
I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
KAREN BLACK
If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believ...
KAREN BLACK
If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c...
KAREN BLACK
I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK
I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK
I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK
If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK
When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER
You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER
Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER
My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER
When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER
Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER
What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER
It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER
I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER
Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER
Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER
Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER
Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER
The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER
Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER
Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER
Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER
I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS
My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS
I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS
When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
KAREN BASS
It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
KAREN BASS