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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.


Patricia Kaas

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PATRICIA MARX Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent...
PATRICIA IRELAND And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fac...
PATRICIA IRELAND We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would...
PATRICIA IRELAND We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the ...
PATRICIA IRELAND We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets reall...
PATRICIA IRELAND They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney...
PATRICIA IRELAND Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would ...
PATRICIA IRELAND I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so m...
PATRICIA IRELAND Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.
PATRICIA IRELAND My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. T...
PATRICIA IRELAND I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to lead...
PATRICIA IRELAND The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statis...
PATRICIA IRELAND Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of pri...
PATRICIA IRELAND I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence agai...
PATRICIA IRELAND Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight ...
PATRICIA IRELAND The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the sa...
PATRICIA IRELAND Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent att...
PATRICIA IRELAND The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to t...
PATRICIA IRELAND The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
PATRICIA IRELAND I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowermen...
PATRICIA IRELAND When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as ...
PATRICIA IRELAND When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man ...
PATRICIA IRELAND