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Lionel Shriver Quotes

As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1957

Topics

Women Power Woman Being General

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

Work Mother Me You Want Up

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

Education Men Lie Me Believe Hearts

When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

Maurice de Vlaminck

People Painting Start Generation Get

It was Labor Day weekend in 1983, and Dad hired me to run Mick's Lounge, a bar he co-owned, for $200 a week. The business was nearly bankrupt. But I said, 'Dad, I can fix it.' It was the most natural thing I'd ever done. It just made sense to me.

Business Day Me Weekend Week Labor

I am a self-made brat.

I Am Self-Made Brat Am

I'd love to try comedy, which I've never actually done. I could fail miserably at it, but I'd have fun working it out.

Love Fun Have Fun Comedy Done Never

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Martine McCutcheon

Woman Man Genius Questions You Ask

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Miguel de Cervantes

Within Greatest Must Whom Combat

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

Michael Ondaatje

History Moment Three Coincidence

My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.

Music Passion Culture Me You Know

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA.

Johnny Weissmuller

Lost Race Never Even Freestyle

I'm obsessed with lip stuff. I have to have stuff on my lips at all times.

Constance Zimmer

Lips Stuff Lip Obsessed Times

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