Karen Bender Quotes

My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my son walk into kindergarten at a school in which he was the only Jewish child out of 600 students - and this in the middle of the Bible Belt.

Karen Bender

Quotes to Explore

I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

Harold Pinter
- Mean
- Never
- Understand
I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

Viggo Mortensen
- People
- Nature
- Think
I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

Beck
- Music
- Think
- Quality
My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

Fleur East
- People
- Black
- Dad
Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

Sadhu Vaswani
- Up
- Great
- God
I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.

Rand Paul
- Different
- History
- Alone