Ina May Gaskin Quotes

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

Ina May Gaskin

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• Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • History
  • Struggle
  • Years

• Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Writing
  • Magic
  • Changed

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Interesting

• A lot of these guys in 'Fight Master' will compete in Bellator and in mixed mart arts for quite some time.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Time
  • Fight
  • Arts

• They say women and music should never be dated.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Never

• I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Love

• We have to take care of ourselves if we are going to take care of anyone else properly.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Care
  • Take
  • Take Care

• When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Women
  • History

• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• People forget actors can adapt and change their appearance. In this industry, people sometimes cast to type, or as close to type as possible, but actors are a lot more versatile than you think!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Think
  • Change

• You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Movie

• Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Health

• The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Words
  • Magic
  • Internet

• I love Canada.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Canada

• It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • Life
  • Real

• As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment.

  

  Susan Kelechi Watson
  • People
  • Environment
  • Kid

• Moneymaking was never anything to me. I was happy never making money; I just was happy doing things I liked. But I fell into the money thing. I now don't feel guilty about it, but I am determined to give away the bulk of it and enjoy doing it.

  

  David Rubenstein
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Guilty

• I am who I am. There’s no facade. No put-on. And being voted sexiest doesn’t concern me. Maybe that’s the sexy part.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Voted
  • Sexiest

• It mocks me as it flies, I know: All too soon the gleam will go; Yet I love it and shall love My dream that brooks no narrower bars Than bind the darkening heavens above, My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars: Then, I'll follow it no more, I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Dream
  • Light
  • Door

• If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Hero
  • Chicken