You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play stro...
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way...
JASON WU With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to p...
RACHEL MCADAMS Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.
NICOLE POLIZZI I'd prefer 'be strong' than 'don't worry'.
TOBA BETA To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
SADE ADU I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
BRANDON SANDERSON If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for...
ALICE DREGER I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
ADAM CAROLLA You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.
BELINDA CARLISLE The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
PHILIPPA GREGORY You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."
"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the cen...
JODIE WHITTAKER I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.
MARY DALY You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can ...
NATE ROBINSON I don't have favourites, I think, when you play, you have to be like a prostitute, you have to l...
RUGGIERO RICCI I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t ...
NIKITA GILL I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women...
IDA LUPINO You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don...
MACY GRAY You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. The...
GINGER ROGERS People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any mor...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have a lot of sides to my personality and what you see on 'The Hills' is a strong, indepen...
KRISTIN CAVALLARI A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength again...
MARILYN MONROE If you don't exercise, you don't stay strong. I like to work with talented people.
WILLIAM HURT I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't h...
RACHEL ZOE I love being married: you don't have to go out, you don't have to be on the prowl, and you d...
AVIVA When we are children or teenagers, most of us experience something which has devastating effects on ...
MARINO BACCARINI She nodded, wondering why couldn't she have been named Mary. Or Sue.
But no, she had to be nine...
J.R. WARD You know, I don't really think you have to play nice guys.
TOMMY LEE JONES I need boy dancers to be strong, masculine!
NIGEL LYTHGOE If you are dissatisfied with what you have,
Then you will never be satisfied with what you have...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don't have to be rich. You don't hav...
JOHN C. MAXWELL Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the sam...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN Actors can't retire. If actors retired, there would be nobody left to play old, wrinkly people. ...
CHARLES DANCE You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.
TAYLOR JENKINS REID Just to see what a pink dress can mean to a woman, any woman, but a disabled woman, that's extra...
BETSEY JOHNSON The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone...
SANDY KOUFAX If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
JON STEWART Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
HAMZA YUSUF If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
COUNT BASIE We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
DENNIS WEAVER Daniel, I did not knowwhat I wanted when I was agirl. And then I was a fool in every sense of the wo...
PHILIPPA GREGORY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Don't be a smart ass!
Smartass die first!!
DEYTH BANGER I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it...
KEKE PALMER He doesn’t like making others uncomfortable.”
-Helen to Sophia about Alistair
ELIZABETH HOYT She leaned forward, her gaze so intense that Helen wanted to look away. “And I love him more for i...
ELIZABETH HOYT HATERS BACK OFF!!!
MIRANDA SINGS To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care...
FELIX DENNIS Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb ...
DJ KHALED It takes a CONSTANT flowing of gas from the cylinder to keep the fire burning under your pot. “WOO...
OLAOTAN FAWEHINMI I don't have a strong interest in history.
LARRY NIVEN Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.
BETHENNY FRANKEL I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue...
RON CHERNOW As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thi...
ZAHA HADID You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to ...
JEANNE MOREAU It's funny when people ask an actor what they want to play next, because you don't get to de...
DYLAN WALSH You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't st...
JENNY MCCARTHY I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competit...
OSCAR ROBERTSON You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be...
CAMERON DIAZ I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibil...
LAMAR ODOM 7 Rules to a Happy Life:
1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to.
MINK STOLE You don't have to be naked to be sexy.
NICOLE KIDMAN I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.
CAMERON DIAZ Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a...
ISLA FISHER You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five ...
CARL HAGELIN It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it'...
GINA HOLDEN A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclus...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Everything emanates from the basics, from your base. If you don't have a strong base, I'm so...
BILL GOLDBERG Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.
JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. You can't do anything to help your team win when you don't play.
FREDDY ADU But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
MIKE FIGGIS In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You'v...
JEFF GORDON Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
BEN HOGAN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't kn...
ANDERSON COOPER I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't pl...
DJ JAZZY JEFF Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play te...
ROSALYN SUSSMAN YALOW I like that I'm in shape but still look like a woman. I don't feel like I've had to give...
MIESHA TATE I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don...
MAYA RUDOLPH To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her.
SCOTT BAIO Many people don't understand how disciplined you have to be to play jazz... And that is really t...
DAVE BRUBECK People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't...
COLIN QUINN I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choos...
STEVE CARELL Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads...
JULES RENARD
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MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD Obviously, we're all going to die at some point. Whether or not we are fated to die in some way ...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I think when I was 12, when, like, 'Titanic' and 'Romeo + Juliet' came out, my frien...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things p...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I think a lot of fans immediately go, 'ugggh' when they hear that someone is doing a prequel...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I can remember when 'Pulp Fiction' came out. I was, like, 10 years old. But I remember the i...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily...
MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD Always be free or die trying
MARY ELIZABETH all I want is someone to hold me if they cared
MARY ELIZABETH I think-therefore I'm single
LIZZ WINSTEAD She is very consistent, both on her serve and defensively. She's a great hustler.
MEGAN WINSTEAD The stigma of child abuse is still apparent here. (It's) kind of like the road less traveled. Turns ...
CINDY WINSTEAD (The Allen case) touched my heart.
CINDY WINSTEAD We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a...
LIZZ WINSTEAD At first I was very reluctant and for about three weeks I was unable to sleep.
CINDY WINSTEAD God has primed me for this purpose. He has inspired me to be a voice for the voiceless.
CINDY WINSTEAD It feels good to win the conference regular-season title, and to head into the tournament with an un...
JACQUIA WINSTEAD It's a community effort. We're trying to take a very negative subject and make it a positive one to ...
CINDY WINSTEAD They are such a simple and beautiful thing for a child. But it's also a strong message. It has to st...
CINDY WINSTEAD We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.
CINDY WINSTEAD I'm proud to say what started with one individual has now grown to many equal-minded people and the ...
CINDY WINSTEAD He's in New York riding on a fire truck up there now. I've already sold two more to go to Ohio. He i...
CINDY WINSTEAD I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know ...
LIZZ WINSTEAD I don't think any of us were going to give up. We've been down before, but not that much.
JACQUIA WINSTEAD Of course, we spend a lot of time on the court but off the court, too.
JACQUIA WINSTEAD We know the feeling and how much it takes to take it to the next level. We were anxious to be here, ...
JACQUIA WINSTEAD She's a freshman. She's still learning.
JACQUIA WINSTEAD If you have a focus and a structure and then within it you can play and have some liberties and have...
LIZZ WINSTEAD [She noted that Newt Gingrich's half-sister, who has come out as a lesbian, works for United Parcel ...
LIZZ WINSTEAD Viewer's Choice Stand-Up Comic.
LIZZ WINSTEAD Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. ...
MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boist...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON It is because women are never lazy. They don't know what it is to be quiet. They are Semiramides, an...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and prog...
MARY ELIZABETH LEASE A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodiga...
MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise,
And the door stood open at our feast,
W...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
MARY ELIZABETH LEASE That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can p...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand wi...
MARY ELIZABETH FRYE Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abb...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him...
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds t...
MARY ELIZABETH FRYE I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking t...
MARY ELIZABETH MASTRANTONIO To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the stronger sex, the noisier, t...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON We are apt to be angry with this cruel hardness in our life—this unflinching regularity in the sma...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON What had been his love for his first wife but a poor, pitiful, smouldering spark, too dull to be dis...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON For you see Miss Lucy Graham was blessed with that magic power of fascination by which a woman can c...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON . . . and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been t...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Now love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, ...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON . . . when the horror of his grief was new to him, and every object in life, however trifling or how...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON [...] that magic power of fascination by which a woman can charm with a word or intoxicate with a sm...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON We hear every day of murders committed in the country. Brutal and treacherous murders; slow, protrac...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Sir Harry Towers cares.
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emo...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully;...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON He forgot that love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than...
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON There were many beautiful vipers in those days and she was one of them. ("Eveline's Visitant")
MARY ELIZABETH BRADDON Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never
be allowed to get the upper hand.
COUNTESS ELIZABETH VON ARNIM ("COUNTESS ELIZABETH MARY RUSSELL") Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.
MARY BERRY My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
MARY GARDEN I decided to write about the myths of divorce.
MARY GARDEN I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
MARY GARDEN If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don'...
MARY GARDEN Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, draw...
MARY GARDEN My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of ...
MARY GARDEN In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st...
MARY GARDEN Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence...
MARY GARDEN I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I cou...
MARY GARDEN For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
MARY GARDEN In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was con...
MARY GARDEN A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything...
MARY GARDEN My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.
MARY GARDEN It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei...
MARY GARDEN Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse...
MARY GARDEN Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
MARY SHELLEY If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any...
MARY ASTELL I long for my garden to be complete. Working in it is one of my joys, but it will never be finished ...
MARY QUANT Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
MARY MARTIN When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, a...
MARY KARR Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I ...
MARY HASKELL There are no absolutes in this world, and there will always be mistakes that are made within brokera...
MARY SCHAPIRO When I opened my first shop, city gents were still carrying tightly furled umbrellas and wearing bow...
MARY QUANT I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of differe...
MARY DALY Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria...
MARY BERRY I wasn't the brightest button in the class at school, but I enjoyed cooking and baking. I wasn...
MARY BERRY I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes...
MARY BERRY To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary natu...
MARY WEBB In my end is my beginning.
MARY STUART You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.
MARY SCHMICH 'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
MARY SCHMICH For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.
MARY SCHMICH TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no...
MARY SCHMICH The first gay person I ever met was surely not the first gay person I ever met.
MARY SCHMICH The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
MARY SCHMICH You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
MARY SCHMICH Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless w...
MARY SCHMICH In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp n...
MARY SCHMICH Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
MARY SCHMICH Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's p...
MARY SCHMICH I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renew...
MARY SCHMICH Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you'll have a trust fund. Maybe you'll ha...
MARY SCHMICH Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, ...
MARY SCHMICH Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air...
MARY SCHMICH Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a ye...
MARY BERRY Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.
MARY CHENEY One of our most promising technologies is Super Cruise, which is the working name for an innovative ...
MARY BARRA I was always nervous before a television show, and I still am now. But 'The Great British Bake O...
MARY BERRY When you look at the truck market in North America, you have to understand the customer, and that...
MARY BARRA If you are buying a larger turkey than usual, make sure it will fit in the oven.
MARY BERRY I mainly cook British food with a few things I've had on my holidays. I went to the Canary Islan...
MARY BERRY Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. J...
MARY BUCKLEY The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how we...
MARY MCDOWELL Liberty, as it is concieved by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhi...
MARY SHELLEY The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
MARY STEWART Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows....
MARY MATALIN In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a gene...
MARY AUSTIN When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of he...
MARY AUSTIN Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.
MARY AUSTIN We have 60 hills of rhubarb now. When we bought the farm in 1946 we found it coming up in the pastur...
MARY AUSTIN If you are not at your ideal body weight and are not active, over time, you have a risk of diabetes.
MARY AUSTIN Our emergency preparedness is always an ongoing priority. We're constantly working on it at the Clin...
MARY AUSTIN The Stoughton tornado was probably a motivator as well, because that could just as easily have been ...
MARY AUSTIN What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, bu...
MARY AUSTIN People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker
MARY AUSTIN These findings are very reflective of what we see around the world. The rise in weight and obesity i...
MARY AUSTIN The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me.
MARY ROACH People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was....
MARY KARR To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it again...
MARY OLIVER My mother always read to me as a child. I really believe that bonding time between a parent and chil...
MARY ENGELBREIT A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
MARY SHELLEY The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
MARY STEWART Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
MARY QUANT To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wr...
MARY HEMINGWAY But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they a...
MARY BALOGH ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up childre...
MARY WESLEY The biggest message I have for young women is, Don't start cutting off branches of your career t...
MARY BARRA World peace starts with the Creator- Jesus!!
MARY KATE We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a ...
MARY ASTOR A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.
MARY ASTOR It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.
MARY ASTOR The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
MARY ASTOR Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with those who are reckless with yours.
MARY SCHMICH To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certain...
MARY STUART Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet
never really meet; and two others at ...
MARY CATHERWOOD It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the ...
MARY GRANDPRE to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is morta...
MARY OLIVER You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles thro...
MARY OLIVER The Uses Of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved on...
MARY OLIVER Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...
MARY OLIVER Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
MARY OLIVER Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER Every spring
I hear the thrush singing
in the glowing woods
he is only passing throug...
MARY OLIVER Do one thing everyday that scares you.
MARY SCHMICH [I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever...
MARY BALOGH My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering t...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, bu...
MARY OLIVER To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
MARY OLIVER There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to...
MARY STEWART The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well...
MARY MCDOWELL Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
MARY BUCKLEY If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call f...
MARY PICKFORD I have never been contained except I made the prison
MARY EVANS The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
MARY LITTLE The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its me...
MARY WEBB It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.
MARY STEWART Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
MARY WEBB Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY No pressure, no diamonds.
MARY CASE Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
MARY BYRANT It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regar...
MARY HENLE A child is fed with milk and praise.
MARY LAMB You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the fal...
MARY PICKFORD Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to l...
MARY DALY Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.
MARY DALY