As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to ...
LOUISE GLüCK ...panic is a synonym for being; in its delays, in its swerving and rushing syntax, its frantic list...
LOUISE GLüCK Living things don't all require
light in the same degree. Some of us
make our own light: a...
LOUISE GLüCK You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confront
much sorrow and disappointment.
He g...
LOUISE GLüCK The master said You must write what you see.
But what I see does not move me.
The m...
LOUISE GLüCK Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ...
LOUISE BROWN Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories...
LOUISE FRESCO We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn'...
LOUISE MENSCH The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countr...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided ...
LOUISE NURDING Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't ...
LOUISE NURDING It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
LOUISE MAY To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...t...
LOUISE ERDRICH She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief bec...
LOUISE PENNY Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...
LOUISE ERDRICH Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude...
LOUISE ERDRICH Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applyi...
LOUISE LABé Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it bre...
LOUISE SUGGS Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
LOUISE DRISCOLL But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
LOUISE BOGAN Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their ...
LOUISE BOGAN The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live i...
LOUISE BERNIKOW The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert him...
LOUISE BOGAN Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
LOUISE BEAL If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
LOUISE BROWN Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else t...
LOUISE BOGAN Every time I say sure when I mean no, every time I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, ever...
LOUISE BERNIKOW People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
LOUISE HAY What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
LOUISE NEVELSON Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them th...
LOUISE TALMA I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of wo...
LOUISE NEVELSON Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange bea...
LOUISE BOGAN They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho...
LOUISE ERDRICH I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
LOUISE NEVELSON Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
LOUISE BOGAN I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir...
MARIE LOUISE And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refuse...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I ca...
LOUISE MENSCH My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there...
LOUISE ERDRICH I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. ...
LOUISE JAMESON This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the mol...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
LOUISE BOGAN Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical a...
LOUISE HART The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
LOUISE HART Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming i...
LOUISE FRESCO Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you'r...
LOUISE NURDING My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In ord...
LOUISE ERDRICH For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a b...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said.
LOUISE ERDRICH Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fea...
LOUISE BOURGEOIS To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte&#...
LOUISE PENNY The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and ret...
LOUISE BROWN I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.
LOUISE NURDING Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's n...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I ha...
LOUISE POST To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted.

But what happened t...
LOUISE PENNY When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilien...
LOUISE ERDRICH Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them ...
LOUISE PENNY If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.
LOUISE FITZHUGH As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a...
LOUISE NURDING Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-a...
LOUISE PENNY Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may no...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government,...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedra...
LOUISE NURDING My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad cas...
LOUISE NURDING Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children....
LOUISE BROWN I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
LOUISE NEVELSON Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude wi...
LOUISE ERDRICH Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude...
LOUISE ERDRICH Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence...
LOUISE ERDRICH To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having sur...
LOUISE ERDRICH For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over a...
LOUISE ERDRICH To fly from one tree to another, the raven hangs itself, hawklike, on the air. I hang myself that sa...
LOUISE ERDRICH ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as h umbel as the spider's, what is bea...
LOUISE ERDRICH The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
LOUISE ERDRICH Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the ...
LOUISE ERDRICH Tu dois aimer. Tu dois ressentir. C'est la raison pour laquelle tu es ici sur terre. Tu es ici pour ...
LOUISE ERDRICH When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know peop...
LOUISE ERDRICH And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let y...
LOUISE ERDRICH ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beau...
LOUISE ERDRICH Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were co...
LOUISE ERDRICH In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our m...
LOUISE ERDRICH When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
LOUISE PENNY Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures som...
LOUISE FRESCO I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your o...
LOUISE MENSCH She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or wh...
LOUISE FLETCHER Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the ot...
LOUISE ERDRICH The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading l...
LOUISE BROWN I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll...
LOUISE RENNISON In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
LOUISE BROOKS Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and acad...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins...
LOUISE ERDRICH I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and t...
LOUISE NURDING Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional.
LOUISE BOURGEOIS The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movement...
LOUISE BROOKS Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say...
LOUISE MENSCH I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
LOUISE NEVELSON Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
LOUISE ERDRICH Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
LOUISE BEAL There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.
LOUISE ERDRICH I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for...
LOUISE LEAKEY It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
LOUISE MAY A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain.
LOUISE NEVELSON We know from worldwide experience that very often when you go beyond the numbers you uncover pattern...
LOUISE ARBOUR It is not appropriate to say: 'We are doing this our own way',
LOUISE ARBOUR Do I believe that people indicted by this tribunal will be tried? If I didn't believe that, I wouldn...
LOUISE ARBOUR The present indictment is based entirely on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo.
LOUISE ARBOUR I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, ...
LOUISE NURDING There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a f...
LOUISE BROOKS I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
LOUISE BOURGEOIS The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful ...
LOUISE BROWN We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've see...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that.
LOUISE PENNY Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded ser...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I've always been a bad flyer, but I don't let it get in the way of travelling. I love steppi...
LOUISE NURDING We spoke no German, nor ate any German foods.
LOUISE HALL They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and le...
LOUISE JAMESON Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The ar...
LOUISE BOGAN We are not resting our case on simply the knowledge of superiors of the acts of their subordinates, ...
LOUISE ARBOUR Most are middle-class women who are very successful, in areas like banking, the media, the law or ru...
LOUISE BROWN Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they s...
LOUISE PENNY Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
LOUISE RENNISON What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one...
LOUISE LEAKEY Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It...
LOUISE FLETCHER There is much to love, and that love is what we are left with. When the bombs stop dropping, and the...
LOUISE MURPHY Father never approved of my toys
Saw them as child's playthings
I was a child

T...
T.P. LOUISE Just remember, honey, you only have one heart.
LOUISE BAGSHAWE This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later".
LOUISE BAGSHAWE People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere els...
LOUISE BROWN Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves.
LOUISE BERNIKOW The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.
LOUISE ERDRICH To serve someone a citation, you have to do it in person. If it?s an absentee landlord, it?s cost pr...
LOUISE DIX I've always loved Helena Christensen's style because she looks casual and comfortable, while...
LOUISE NURDING You must create your own world. I'm responsible for my world.
LOUISE NEVELSON I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
LOUISE NEVELSON A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference.
LOUISE NEVELSON I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time.
LOUISE NEVELSON It was enough just to sit there without words.
LOUISE ERDRICH In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our m...
LOUISE ERDRICH They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho...
LOUISE ERDRICH Hunger steals the memory
LOUISE ERDRICH Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
LOUISE ERDRICH Most are middle-class women who are very successful, in areas like banking, the media, the law or ru...
LOUISE BROWN I would say the number of women approaching us has more than doubled,
LOUISE BROWN I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the wh...
LOUISE BROOKS The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of anot...
LOUISE BOGAN One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour...
LOUISE NURDING Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, ...
LOUISE LEAKEY Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the pre...
LOUISE GLUCK The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.
LOUISE HAY I don't know why they waited to the last minute to leave Paris. But they had amazing foresight and l...
LOUISE BORDEN Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parki...
LOUISE PENNY Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
LOUISE BROOKS Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
LOUISE ERDRICH Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.
LOUISE ERDRICH No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the world a portion of its lost heart.
LOUISE BOGAN It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume.
LOUISE ARBOUR until the accused are in custody.
LOUISE ARBOUR Two phenomena, in my view, are particularly disturbing: One is the prevalence of the use of torture ...
LOUISE ARBOUR I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, a...
LOUISE ARBOUR The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible.
LOUISE ARBOUR Let us be clear, the proposal before the General Assembly is the fruit of compromise. It cannot be a...
LOUISE ARBOUR We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immedia...
LOUISE ARBOUR China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to mat...
LOUISE ARBOUR China's rapid economic g rowth has resulted in tremendous progress in reducing poverty and improving...
LOUISE ARBOUR There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations fo...
LOUISE ARBOUR If you can't return a favor, pass it on
LOUISE BROWN I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on...
LOUISE NEVELSON Some people need a slap, in the face, with a shovel!
LOUISE TRENT I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.
LOUISE BROWN My father could out-weather anybody. Like people anywhere, there were times when it was the only top...
LOUISE ERDRICH I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion.
LOUISE POST …believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn’t.
LOUISE PENNY Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving gr...
LOUISE ERDRICH Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at th...
LOUISE ERDRICH And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't...
LOUISE RENNISON Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront.
LOUISE ERDRICH Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep m...
LOUISE FITZHUGH It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockef...
LOUISE NEVELSON What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shoul...
LOUISE NEVELSON New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast sc...
LOUISE NURDING A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
LOUISE ERDRICH The people stared through her as though she were invisible until she thought she was, and walked mor...
LOUISE ERDRICH Clara shrugged and immediately knew her betrayal of Peter. In one easy movement she'd distanced hers...
LOUISE PENNY Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved!
Receive the laurel, given, though late, o...
LOUISE BOGAN I think the fact they they're just practically denuding the northeast preys on a lot of minds and we...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Exxon-Mobil alone, one oil company, brought in more than $7.6 billion dollars in profits over the la...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER The criminal indictment of Tom DeLay is the first chink in the armor of corruption that has so cloud...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER This bill would create the first federal law that would recognize a fertilized egg as a victim of a ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER We need bipartisan support. We believe we can get it and we will get it.
LOUISE SLAUGHTER The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
LOUISE HART From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. We...
LOUISE NEVELSON True strength is delicate
LOUISE NEVELSON The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslav...
LOUISE NEVELSON It is as hard to take success as it is failure.
LOUISE NEVELSON There's no one that can comprehend what it means to have a place like this until you need it. This t...
LOUISE CUMMINGS