Famous Quotes & Sayings

Romola Garai

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Nelly Furtado

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.

Natalie Wood

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

Maria Edgeworth

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Natalie Merchant

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

Kate Moss

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

Rachel Cusk

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

Rachel Cusk

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

Tess Gerritsen

Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

Carl Jung

There are only two emotions. Love and fear.... Love and fear is all there is == Everything else is just an offshoot motivated by those two.

Anthony Fauci

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Robert Crippen

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.

Rob Sheffield

But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

Rob Cohen

No two directors make the same film the same way.

Rob Brown

You can get the oldest drum machine out and whack out four sounds like a kick, snare, and two types of high-hat, and try and come up with the freshest thing on the spot. The gear can guide you - you can choose one bit of gear and it's obviously got its restrictions and its limitations, but at the same time, you've got to exploit what it's capable of and what it's best used for.

Rob Jackson

Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While it requires sacrificial service, it is not a call to martyrdom. In many cases of domestic violence, a therapeutic separation is necessary to gain safety and direct attention to the gravity of the need for change.

Richard Petty

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

Richard P. Feynman

You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons", they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron."

Ruth Rendell

I think that all women, unless they are absolutely asleep, must be feminists up to a point.

Vivienne Westwood

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

Virginia Woolf

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

Warren Farrell

But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.

Wyndham Lewis

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

Lynn Coady

In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

Nawal El Saadawi

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely!

Margaret Thatcher

In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated.