Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.


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Babe, I nearly shot Skid in the ass one time because a spider fell on me while I was holding a gun,�...
JOANNA WYLDE
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...
JOANNA BAILLIE
Never buy one of anything and make two boys share it.
JOANNA MOJA
If standing for my rights and what i deserve makes me a bitch then i will be glad to be a bitch
JOANNA AJ
“Many women's goal is to be the center of attention, when they get fame and catch men eyes its whe...
JOANNA AJ
The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because ...
JOANNA SCOTT
I'm not afraid of needles.
JOANNA KRUPA
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
JOANNA TROLLOPE
You're only as wanted as you are needed, and you're only as loved as you feel.
JOANNA MOJA
Sometimes the grass really IS greener on the other side and you're happier, until you step in shit a...
JOANNA MOJA
I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a cro...
JOANNA RUSS
Let me tell you what I want,' he said fiercely. 'For a start, I want you. I told you that, but perha...
JOANNA MANSELL
It's an incredibly emotive issue. This is something that really upset Afghans. But it is also being ...
JOANNA NATHAN
There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
JOANNA FIELD
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT
Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.
JOANNA KRUPA
Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even whe...
JOANNA BROOKS
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can'...
JOANNA SCOTT
If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the...
JOANNA SCOTT
I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the ...
JOANNA TROLLOPE
When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and t...
JOANNA GOING
In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way.
JOANNA GAWN
To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can...
JOANNA GOING
The objective is to raise the profile of the city to its residents and visitors.
JOANNA ORMESHER
Here we go then," Dad says. "Motoring towards our dreams, Bridge."
"You shouldn't follow dreams...
JOANNA CAMPBELL
I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to...
JOANNA GARCIA
The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, ou...
JOANNA NEWSOM
Typing was, as the placement agency lady had assured me, like riding a bike: my fingers remembered t...
JOANNA RAKOFF
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are comp...
JOANNA NEWSOM
The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.
JOANNA KRUPA
One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better ou...
JOANNA GAINES
I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don...
JOANNA CASSIDY
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
JOANNA RUSS
As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.

But the frogs die in ...
JOANNA RUSS
There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...
JOANNA RUSS
While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort...
JOANNA SCOTT
There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energ...
JOANNA CASSIDY
I finally believed it was actually a beautiful thing to be unique and to be different.
JOANNA GAINES
In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around...
JOANNA MACY
Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberati...
JOANNA MACY
One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking a...
JOANNA KRUPA
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they...
JOANNA SCOTT
It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of origina...
JOANNA RUSS
If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and ...
JOANNA RUSS
When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and ea...
JOANNA RUSS
I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' le...
JOANNA RUSS