There are some nights people don't want to leave. They're just so comfortable.


Barbara Pergament

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I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different...
BARBARA KRUGER
Money talks. It starts rumors about careers and complicity and speaks of the tragedies and triumphs ...
BARBARA KRUGER
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to sur...
BARBARA KRUGER
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, ins...
BARBARA KRUGER
Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality whic...
BARBARA KRUGER
Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a...
BARBARA KRUGER
I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER
I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER
I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER
Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...
BARBARA KRUGER
I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER
We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE
Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE
I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE
I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the l...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of a...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact t...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when th...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that har...
BARBARA JORDAN
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'
BARBARA JORDAN