Claire Tomalin Quotes

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

Claire Tomalin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 20, 1933

Topics

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I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

Joe Torre

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I'll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

Jeff Gordon

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The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

Tony Evans

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I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Mika Brzezinski

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And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

Molly Ivins

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I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

Loretta Lynch

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Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

Joyce Maynard

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It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn't have the need to be on the stage; I didn't feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

Aurora

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In bonded labour cases, judges would ask me why I had brought those people to the courts who stank. 'You are here precisely for them,' I would respond.

Asma Jahangir

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When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Allison Pearson

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I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

William J. Clinton

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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus

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