3 December 2020 Julie Burchill Women, more often than not, do things which aren’t remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.
3 December 2020 Susan Orlean There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.
3 December 2020 Alice Walker My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
3 December 2020 Alexander Wang I feel so thankful that I’m able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.
3 December 2020 Margaret Atwood I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
3 December 2020 Nick Lowe The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn’t cross the road to see them. It’s people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.
3 December 2020 Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
3 December 2020 Arthur C. Clarke This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Franklin In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
3 December 2020 Leigh Hunt If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol We are now operating a school system in America that’s more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
3 December 2020 Tom Hanks From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle we just decided to go.
3 December 2020 Sheryl Swoopes As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women’s sports have arrived.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
3 December 2020 Barbara Cook Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff… And it does take courage.
3 December 2020 Cissy Houston I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there’s nothing I can do about that.
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Kasdan I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that.
3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
3 December 2020 Paula Deen I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I’m going to eat that type of food, it’s going to be the real deal.
