You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79
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MEGYN KELLY A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
IRINA DUNN The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.
DALAI LAMA XIV The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
JOE KLAAS A lot of women think they need to be a good golfer, but what they need to know are the rules and eti...
KATHY LOBATO I know those rules. I know which rules not to break and I know how to get around everything else. Yo...
DAVID GROSS No. I write down thoughts as they occur to me. You never know when you're going to need a good idea.
PETER JENNINGS Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
PABLO PICASSO I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no cour...
ELTON JOHN Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very impo...
DAVID ORTIZ Know the rules if you want to break them.
OCTAV DRUTA It's uncalled for when people act like that. You can play hard within the rules. You don't have to b...
JAKE SCOTT It sounds like they can break their own rules when they're investigating crimes. Too bad our clients...
JOHN WESLEY (BUSINESS EXECUTIVE) It's like jazz: You learn the rules to break them - as long as you can break them in a meaningfu...
RYAN NORTH I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
JEANETTE WINTERSON But honestly? What women need?” Dean paused to take a sip of his coffee. “Actions. Not words. So...
PRISCILLA GLENN I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the onl...
GEORGE BURNS They should bring carrots for Gloria.
KATIE GARDNER The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
GARY GYGAX You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.
RICKIE LEE JONES We may have lost, we may have not gotten the 79 signatures, this does not mean that Gloria Macapagal...
FRANCIS ESCUDERO I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,&...
ZACK SNYDER If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG You are the damnedest creature! You make me think of the old story about Alexander the Great. He wep...
ANNE RICE I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives ...
ANDREA HIRATA They accused me of stirring up animosity. You know I write about the 16th century! I write about tri...
RAHIM ESENOV The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a b...
LIANE MORIARTY So I write for women like that, women like me.
JUDITH MCNAUGHT I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I respect Gloria Steinem enormously. But I never wanted to be in any kind of movement - and if you...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I know that some girls look up to me for certain things, like dyslexia, and that way I know that the...
BELLA THORNE I need to get a wife. But it's hard, you know, it's hard to find a girl you can trust. Some ...
JUDAH FRIEDLANDER I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or...
DAVID OGILVY I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction betwe...
ANNE ROIPHE Break the rules not because you don’t know better, but because you know them too well
SAVANIA CHINA Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery ...
BRYAN FERRY Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
ZOE WANAMAKER My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy a...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Back in the Aerie she popped her lips percussively as she examined her booty. 'P-ilfering P-adgett's...
STEVEN GOULD You're convinced that anybody who meets you for the first time will consider you a shit, so you take...
MORDECAI RICHLER If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful.
BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be ...
DAVID WALLIAMS Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ...
TOM BRADY Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that...
TUPAC SHAKUR Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.
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CATHERINE ZETA JONES Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research ab...
BAHMAN GHOBADI No one has the need to know anything about me.
ALLY CONDIE I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no neces...
SUE MILLER People who know how to creatively break the rules also know why the rules were there in the first pl...
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ROB SHEFFIELD Would you like to work here with me?
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BOB HILL You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to ...
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LYNSAY SANDS Girls like to fight guys because if you can take a guy, you can take a girl. It proves how tough you...
DANIELLE JONES We care about women getting the health care that they need to get. Women need to take this in a time...
BETTY DEFAZIO Break the rules this fucking world set for you but never ever break the rules the ones you set for y...
SUPERNA BATHEJA They say things like 'you know what I like about living in a small town? Everybody goes to church to...
HAL SPARKS Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mis...
ELLEN MALCOLM I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.
CARSON KRESSLEY I am responsible for me. I can kind of take care of what I need to do and should do what I like to d...
VINCE GILL Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
BRYAN FERRY Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse,
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BILL REATH What I know is the reality of the internal struggle. You don't know who you can go to. ... There are...
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S.A. TAWKS You're 16 years old, you don't know shit about shit, and PULL UP YOU'RE PANTS!!!
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CHRIS WITTY You know, maybe we don't need enemies."
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DIANA ZUCKERMAN No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.
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MICHAEL MOORE Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
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DAN SAVAGE You are remembered for the rules you break.
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR You are remembered for the rules you break.
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LINDSAY WAGNER I don't need you to take care of me."
"No, you need a kick up the arse.
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GLORIA STEINEM Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
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GLORIA STEINEM Logic is in the eye of the logician.
GLORIA STEINEM . . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.
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GLORIA STEINEM If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.
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GLORIA STEINEM It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.
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GLORIA STEINEM She has become the Julia Child of sex.
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GLORIA STEINEM make dinner, not war.
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GLORIA STEINEM Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
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GLORIA STEINEM Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with stat...
GLORIA STEINEM If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
GLORIA STEINEM We need to unlearn our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves. It'...
GLORIA STEINEM Her hope was to preserve what she called The Way, to keep it alive, for that future moment when the ...
GLORIA STEINEM The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors...
GLORIA STEINEM The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
GLORIA STEINEM Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys.
GLORIA STEINEM If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on...
GLORIA STEINEM Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and come...
GLORIA STEINEM Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individu...
GLORIA STEINEM Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
GLORIA STEINEM Laughter is a rescue. p.204
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