Emma Donoghue Quotes

Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

Emma Donoghue

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• There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Honest
  • Female
  • Vulnerable

• I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Job
  • Try

• I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Better
  • Special
  • Tea

• I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Black
  • Model
  • Honor

• Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Rock
  • Doubt

• One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Liberty

• I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Dance
  • Three
  • Ballet

• I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Like
  • Living
  • Royal

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Things
  • Materials

• I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Believe
  • Really
  • Terrorism

• I think that cosmetic enhancements in my profession are just an occupational hazard. But I think, more culturally, I'm interested in starting the conversation about aging gracefully and how, instead of making it a cultural problem, we make it individuals' problems.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Problem
  • Problems
  • Aging

• Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.

  

  Barbara Billingsley
  • Bad
  • Woman
  • Yes

• I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • Control
  • Collaboration

• In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Fear
  • Contrast
  • Dissent

• Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Book
  • Best

• I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • People
  • Live
  • Earth

• As I walked down to the end of the barracks, there was applause from the men too weak to get out of bed. It sounded like the hand clapping of babies; they were so weak.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Men
  • Hand

• Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Men
  • Drunk
  • Alcohol

• When you're growing up, you have your heroes, and you hear about people going off to other countries to play football, but when you're so young, you're not thinking about that. You just play. No referee, no rules.

  

  Nwankwo Kanu
  • Football
  • Growing Up
  • Heroes

• Any parent knows how to be the ideal parent.

  

  Emma Donoghue