Louise Melling quote: "We certainly welcome the decision because it reaffirms [that] abortion laws have to include exceptions for health. It leaves it open for us to go back down to argue that the legislature intentionally omitted the health exception. We will ask the court to recognize that and strike it down in its entirety."

Colorado had an opportunity to step up where the federal government has failed women. Emergency cont...
LOUISE MELLING

History has shown us that when women are denied access to abortion they may resort to desperate meas...
LOUISE MELLING

Clearly, the Justice Department reviewed documents highlighting the importance of helping sexual ass...
LOUISE MELLING

It would mean a doctor would have to wait until a teen faced a medical emergency. In that case the d...
LOUISE MELLING

This deceptive and extreme measure sacrifices women's health in the name of a broad anti-choice agen...
LOUISE MELLING

Thirty years ago people thought that Roe would be a closed case, yet it is still in the headlines. T...
LOUISE MELLING

I was doing a show at the National Youth Theatre, playing an old man. Before that I had played fat c...
HARRY MELLING

To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierc...
O.R. MELLING

I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me a...
HARRY MELLING

We considered behaving, but it's against our nature.
O.R. MELLING

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due...
HARRY MELLING

Life is a journey through a foreign land.
O.R. MELLING

Life isn't as magical here, and you're not the only one who feels like you don't belong, or that it'...
O.R. MELLING

If I have not love, I am Nothing.
O.R. MELLING

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.
O.R. MELLING

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I&#...
O. R. MELLING

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a tru...
O. R. MELLING

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical un...
O. R. MELLING

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than w...
O. R. MELLING

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

Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
LOUISE GLüCK

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

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

As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to ...
LOUISE GLüCK

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

...panic is a synonym for being; in its delays, in its swerving and rushing syntax, its frantic list...
LOUISE GLüCK

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

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

Living things don't all require
light in the same degree. Some of us
make our own light: a...
LOUISE GLüCK

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

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