Mona Simpson Quotes

The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

Mona Simpson

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• If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Want
  • You
  • Story

• I'm by nature someone that quite likes to understand how things are working, likes some sense of structure, and I've fallen into the worst possible trade for that.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Nature
  • Understand
  • Possible

• I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'

  

  Leo Howard
  • People
  • Help
  • Fun

• I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • People
  • Parents

• I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.

  

  Dennis Washington
  • Life
  • God
  • Passion

• I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Live
  • Forever

• Red wine vinegar has some personality as well acidity.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Personality
  • Red
  • Wine

• You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • English
  • Knows
  • Speak

• I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Force
  • Iraq
  • Threat

• I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Up
  • Music
  • History

• When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Parents

• Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Music
  • God

• Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Up
  • Business
  • Character

• It is as if Emily Brontë could tear up all that we know human beings by, and fill these unrecognizable transparencies with such a gust of life that they transcend reality.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Reality
  • Humans
  • Tears

• There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life is
  • Enjoyed
  • Overcome

• We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.

  

  Rain
  • Wind
  • Rain
  • Tangled

• The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Generations
  • Enjoyed
  • Fatherhood