Elayne Boosler Quotes

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Elayne Boosler

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WomenMenShoppingThinkingCountry

I've had a wonderful life. The reason it's been a wonderful life is I've made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.

Jenifer Lewis

LifeLoveChoicesLove LifeReason

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

Jeff Sessions

JusticePeaceGoalBurdenNeedLead

The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it's kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?

Amanda de Cadenet

ConfidencePowerGreatWomanWorld

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

Ron Rash

FamilyLiveTimeLandscapeLong

Two, I actually learned a lot of things that served me very well when it came to repeating performances on stage, because it is a craft and you do need a technique for it.

Ron Silver

MeYouCraftNeedTwoStage

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.

Michael Ondaatje

WritingWorldYouKindWithin

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.

Derek Sivers

BusinessMoneyPurposeHappyYou

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something.

Conor Oberst

MusicPeopleMeThinkTryingKnow

Class is a big issue here. And some people get picked on more than others. I think we probably do. I mean, it doesn't help that we wear waistcoats and tweed the whole time. But there is a reverse snobbishness in England towards that sort of stuff. And I think that's one of the reasons we really enjoy America, 'cos we're classless.

Winston Marshall

TimePeopleThinkAmericaHelpMean

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

LearningGoodFutureWisdomPower

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

Paulo Coelho

GodI AmFaceChurchIdeaCommitted

When I moved to Wales more than twenty years ago and began to research 'Here Be Dragons,' I was fascinated from the first by the Welsh medieval laws, by the discovery that women enjoyed a greater status in Wales than elsewhere in Europe.

Sharon Kay Penman

WomenResearchDiscoveryMoreFirst

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