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More Virginia Jess

Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.
JESS Heavenly possibilities are but words on a page, when the truth lies within the heart. Awaken.
JESS I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitatio...
JESS WALTER Love is no game. People cut their ears off over this stuff. People jump off the Eiffel Tower and sel...
JESS ROTHENBERG We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis....
JESS MOODY I was falling. Falling through time and space and stars and sky and everything in between. I fell fo...
JESS ROTHENBERG She’s having a party, you
know. This coming week.”
He took a sip of wine. “I know. I...
JESS MICHAELS Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.
JESS MCGOVERN When the world decides to stop being greedy... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.
JESS GLYNNE My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when ...
JESS GLYNNE My style is unique and random. But I think it's important that it still makes sense.
JESS GLYNNE I look after my skin quite a lot because in this job, it can get stressful. Pimples come out! I clea...
JESS GLYNNE I don't know what I expected – no
maybe I do, Al Pacino from Scarface-
but this drug d...
JESS WALTER I come from a newspaper background, so maybe I'm attuned to current events.
JESS WALTER I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the ...
JESS WALTER I wake at 5 or 5:30 most mornings, make myself a latte and grab a cookie, write until 10 or 11, go h...
JESS WALTER There’s always that one guy who gets a hold on you. Not like your best friend’s brother who gets...
JESS ROTHENBERG In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG There's always that one guy who gets a hold on you.
JESS ROTHENBERG I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a do...
JESS WALTER I tend to like the last sentence I just wrote, which is: 'It was late in the fall and the trees ...
JESS WALTER I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go t...
JESS WALTER The war in Iraq, the abuse of detainees, electronic eavesdropping, Guantanamo Bay - these things wer...
JESS WALTER Children are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.
JESS LAIR Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it.
JESS LAIR In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high ...
JESS WALTER Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less comp...
JESS ROW I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.
JESS GLYNNE I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my manag...
JESS GLYNNE My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the mor...
JESS WALTER I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don&#...
JESS WALTER „Listen,” Richard says, „unless you're about to inherit some money, what we're talking about h...
JESS WALTER Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the...
JESS GLYNNE In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago...
JESS ROW It's a little too early to say anything. It's not necessarily a trend. Things fluctuate from year to...
JESS BROWN Lander did a great job. He used all of his strokes and was so mentally prepared he jumped out really...
JESS MUNRO In the first round when Dempsey hit me with a left hook, I tried hard to continue, but I was rapidly...
JESS WILLARD You can obsess and obsess over how things ended—what you did wrong or could have done differently�...
JESS ROTHENBERG Alpha Phi and Kappa Delta were two of the best teams, so our strategy was to stay with them. In addi...
JESS SAPP We're confident that we'll continue to grow globally and at a multiple to the market.
JESS BLACKBURN At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many ti...
JESS GLYNNE If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever....
JESS LAIR I’d be foolish if I didn’t return her interest.” He puffed out his chest. “And no one has ev...
JESS SCHIRA One nice thing about heaven is that you can relive all your favorite moments and memories pretty muc...
JESS ROTHENBERG You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.
JESS ROTHENBERG When walking the road of life, eat well, love everyone, and don't suck up the devil's trash
JESS DEATON We live in an age that's very suspicious of preachy political rhetoric, which means that there&#...
JESS ROW I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.
JESS WALTER What business does memory have with time?
JESS WALTER My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've...
JESS WALTER I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy ...
JESS WEIXLER They made it deep into the second day at last weekend's tournament. And they picked up right where t...
JESS MUNRO In the midst of happiness or despair
in sorrow or in joy
in pleasure or in pain:
Do w...
JESS ROTHENBERG 'Rather Be' and 'Real Love' are two of the most fun songs to perform; they're su...
JESS GLYNNE I like everything I wear to be in sync.
JESS GLYNNE For the record, I would like to point out that it is NOT being obsessive to memorize a boy's schedul...
JESS ROTHENBERG I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ...
JESS WALTER I've always been quite an eccentric character. I love going out and partying; I'm a very soc...
JESS GLYNNE It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that des...
JESS WALTER What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
JESS WALTER He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination b...
JESS WALTER All we have is the story we tell. Everything we do, every decision we make, our strength, weakness, ...
JESS WALTER Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
JESS WALTER Sometimes, remembering hurts too much.
JESS ROTHENBERG Not that I was obsessive or anything.
Au contraire, mon frere.
For the record, I would lik...
JESS ROTHENBERG Because love is worth it after all.
JESS ROTHENBERG It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their sp...
JESS C. SCOTT Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
JESS C. SCOTT Please, touch me, I pray.
JESS C. SCOTT My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
JESS C. SCOTT V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved on...
JESS C. SCOTT I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?
JESS C. SCOTT A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement
JESS C. SCOTT The human body is the best work of art.
JESS C. SCOTT Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.

Good things come to ...
JESS C. SCOTT Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to wal...
JESS C. SCOTT When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
JESS C. SCOTT I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.
JESS C. SCOTT What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?
JESS C. SCOTT Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
JESS C. SCOTT I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So th...
JESS C. SCOTT Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though...
JESS C. SCOTT We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
DR. JESS LAIR When I do something in my family because I really enjoy it, then my duty has become my pleasure. And...
DR. JESS LAIR Hypocrites get offended by the truth.
JESS C. SCOTT Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state...
JESS C. SCOTT One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lil...
JESS C. SCOTT People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
JESS C. SCOTT That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find somethin...
JESS C. SCOTT Adrian had always found it amusing that a guy could be drilling Stacia up her ass while she consider...
JESS C. SCOTT Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, whi...
JESS C. SCOTT Tie me up, please..." Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the ...
JESS C. SCOTT He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-endin...
JESS C. SCOTT I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl an...
JESS C. SCOTT [novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers
[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, ...
JESS C. SCOTT Quando qualcuno ti ama, il modo in cui pronuncia il tuo nome è differente. Sai che il tuo nome è a...
JESS C. SCOTT When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down an...
JESS C. SCOTT He couldn't run, so he did other things like swimming and the elliptical machine just to keep him in...
JESS DEL BOSQUE Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could und...
JESS C. SCOTT I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend...
JESS C. SCOTT He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a ...
JESS C. SCOTT Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.
JESS C. SCOTT Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.
JESS C. SCOTT Alice is fictional. This isn't.
JESS C. SCOTT The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
JESS C. SCOTT Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his cont...
JESS C. SCOTT [Ever been kissed?]
Of course--Describe it
--Why?--I want to know if you've
JESS C. SCOTT If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead.
JESS C. SCOTT She felt the cold blast from the sterile air conditioning on her bare arms and thighs, as she ambled...
JESS C. SCOTT The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
JESS C. SCOTT [Poem: Slates of Grey]

Sullen faces like slates of grey—
What I’d seen on a walk...
JESS C. SCOTT You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.
JESS C. SCOTT Paeng leans back and rests his hand flat on the table. “Vince.”

Blushing, he snaps at...
JESS MOLLY BROWN The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the...
JESS C. SCOTT Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.
JESS C. SCOTT Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone el...
JESS C. SCOTT She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.
JESS C. SCOTT You can never have too much money.
JESS C. SCOTT Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
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VIRGINIA POSTREL We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as w...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall shor...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It exp...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is writ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
VIRGINIA SATIR We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
VIRGINIA SATIR Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what make...
VIRGINIA SATIR Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
VIRGINIA SATIR Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, th...
VIRGINIA POSTREL There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest gro...
VIRGINIA FOXX Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bi...
VIRGINIA POSTREL The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commerc...
VIRGINIA POSTREL It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by l...
VIRGINIA WOOLF For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It h...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point
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VIRGINIA WOOLF I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I...
VIRGINIA WOOLF We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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VIRGINIA SATIR Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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VIRGINIA WOOLF The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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VIRGINIA POSTREL My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the wor...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes mino...
VIRGINIA POSTREL We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by fi...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times....
VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
VIRGINIA WOOLF What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and...
VIRGINIA WOOLF I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. Tha...
VIRGINIA WADE When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, ho...
VIRGINIA POSTREL My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure -- the relationship so secret and private compa...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
VIRGINIA WOOLF All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in,...
VIRGINIA WOOLF It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handlin...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
VIRGINIA WOOLF As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful...
VIRGINIA POSTREL Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distort...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the poli...
VIRGINIA WOOLF That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
VIRGINIA WOOLF The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of an...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Therefore if you insist upon fighting to protect me, or
VIRGINIA WOOLF Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United Stat...
VIRGINIA FOXX Fly high... Where the only chill that cuts through you is the wind. Where your heart pounds from exh...
VIRGINIA ALISON When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.
VIRGINIA WOOLF We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...
VIRGINIA WOOLF If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about e...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in t...
VIRGINIA WOOLF One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than whe...
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