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Lucy Larcom Quotes

We might all place ourselves in one of two ranks the women who do something, and the women who do nothing; the first being of course the only creditable place to occupy.

Lucy Larcom

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: March 5, 1824 - April 17, 1893

Topics

Women Place Nothing First Two Being

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

Jessica Valenti

Book Professionalism Believing Run

You can make your own way. It's about getting out there and not letting rejection get you down.

Jennifer Armentrout

Rejection You Down Way Out Own

I love the fact that James Ivory made films about Britain, made 'Howards End' and 'The Remains of the Day,' or that Paul Thomas Anderson made 'Phantom Thread.' They're about Britishness, but they're from an American perspective. And I actually think they're fantastic in the way that they understand Britishness.

Andrew Haigh

Love Perspective Day Think End Way

I'm drawn to the way Havaianas capture playfulness and light-heartedness in their products - there is clearly an element of fun.

Matthew Williamson

Fun Way Capture Clearly Products

It is not good for us to trust in our merits, in our virtues or our righteousness; but only in God's free pardon, as given us through faith in Jesus Christ.

John Wycliffe

Good God Faith Trust Free Through

If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn't fall.

Simone Biles

Mistake Rest You Fall Routine Kind

The need is schools dedicated exclusively to the rural segment. If we have a child from a village and a city studying in the same class room, the former is bound to lag behind because children from the urban areas have a better start.

Shiv Nadar

Children Child City Start Better

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Michael Tippett

Music Art American You Will Tell

I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.

Minnie Driver

Good Know Planet Must Yoga About

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

Judy Woodruff

Women Focus Out Because Them

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Douglas Preston

Work Hard Work Home Job Value First

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

Pythagoras

Good Light Darkness Woman Man Evil