Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Deborah Norville

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

Carre Otis

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

Betty Friedan

What had really caused the women's movement was the additional years of human life. At the turn of the century women's life expectancy was forty-six; now it was nearly eighty. Our groping sense that we couldn't live all those years in terms of motherhood alone was "the problem that had no name." Realizing that it was not some freakish personal fault but our common problem as women had enabled us to take the first steps to change our lives.

Betty Friedan

Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.

Bob Woodward

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

Beyonce Knowles

I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.

Barbara Johnson

Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.

Carlos Zambrano

I never quit. I never quit.

Edwin Louis Cole

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

Bob Woodward

If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

Betty White

Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.

Bryant H. McGill

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

Diane Keaton

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Anne Tyler

My stories are never quite good enough

Anne Rice

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

Chuck Lorre

Life is never quite like the brochure.

Charlize Theron

I've always known I wanted a family.

Bernard Marcus

When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

Diane von Furstenberg

I always knew the woman I wanted to be.

David Ruffin

I knew I always wanted to sing.

Art Spiegelman

Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.

Diane Abbott

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Brigitte Bardot

I wanted to be myself. Only myself.

Brownie McGhee

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

Bruce Boxleitner

I'm living what I always wanted to do.