Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Family

• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Women
  • Self
  • Stand

• I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're not getting better, you're getting worse.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Better

• A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Strong
  • Economy
  • Plan

• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Trying
  • Art
  • High

• We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Question
  • Very
  • Beatles

• But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Different

• I am a complete sentimentalist when it comes to clothes. I have so many memories attached to them that I can't throw anything out.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Memories
  • Clothes
  • Sentimentalist

• I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Character
  • Strong
  • Loved

• I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Women
  • Society
  • Respond

• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• I had the strong sense that I really wanted to be a SEAL, and I started thinking, 'Look, I don't ever want to look back and feel I have any regrets.'

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Strong

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Age
  • Strong
  • Dance

• That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Relationship

• There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Single
  • Idea

• I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Important
  • Women

• We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Eyes

• On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Women
  • Reality
  • Hand

• I'm thought of as a celebrity. Everything I've ever done... has been for children. As long as I was working constantly, that was fine, because, although I don't have any children, I do relate better to them than adults.

  

  Jack Wild
  • Long
  • Children
  • Done

• No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams
  • Up
  • Money
  • Home

• If it went on the ballot in Colorado, I would vote to lower the drinking age.

  

  Pete Coors
  • Age
  • Drinking

• The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Solitude