Famous Quotes
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"I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"There are people who carry decency and optimism around with them, who seem to cleanse every atmosphere they settle in, and you can't tell such people things, it is too disruptive."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"Something happened here. In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, were something happened, and then there are all the other places"
Quote by -Alice Munro
"Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"People who believe in miracles do not make much fuss when they actually encounter one"
Quote by -Alice Munro
"And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?"
Quote by -Alice Munro
"It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence. 'If I loved you I would have written differently."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?"
Quote by -Alice Munro
"One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"Love dies all the time, or at any rate it becomes distracted, overlaid--it might as well be dead."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"....Lived in curious but not unhappy isolation…subscribing to magazines nobody around them read, listening to programs on the national radio network which nobody around them listened to…"
Quote by -Alice Munro
"One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"None of us mattered to her, not me, or her critics or defenders. No more than bugs on a lampshade."
Quote by -Alice Munro
"Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation...none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"I would never call myself a cancer survivor because I think it devalues those who do not survive. There's this whole mythology that people bravely battle their cancer and then they become survivors. Well, the ones who don't survive may be just as brave, you know, just as courageous, wonderful people."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"I know that the last thing a book wants is to just sit around unread, serving as an element of interior decorating. So when I have people over, all they have to do is glance at my books, and I implore them to take a few home with them. If I am really ambitious, I pack books into boxes and donate them to prisons."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent."
Quote by -Barbara Concoran
"Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable."
Quote by -Barbara Ehrenreich
"Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm."
Quote by -Barbara Ehrenreich
"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."
Quote by -Barbara Ehrenreich
"We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist."
Quote by -Barbara Ehrenreich
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."
Quote by -Barbara Ehrenreich
"The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals."
Quote by -Barbara Ehrenreich
"If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience."
Quote by -Barbara Ehrenreich
"Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest."
Quote by -Barbara Ehrenreich
"Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely going in that direction. President Obama is hell-bent on imposing a bureaucracy that levels all playing fields at great expense in coin and in freedom."
Quote by -Bill O'Reilly
"America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into the country - most of them poor. They believe they have a shot to improve themselves economically."
Quote by -Bill O'Reilly
"The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences."
Quote by -Bill O'Reilly
"Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I think it's important to teach kids about American culture, and films are certainly a big part of it."
Quote by -Bill O'Reilly
"The gap between rich and poor under President Obama is getting bigger because fewer well-paying jobs are available. Corporations are being taxed to the hilt and are loathe to add more workers. Thus, salaries fall because there are more than enough applicants to fill any job vacancy."
Quote by -Bill O'Reilly
"When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world."
Quote by -Bill O'Reilly