Arlene Croce Quotes
It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.
Quotes to Explore
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens.
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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One of the things I have to do, and I'm working on it, is making sure I enjoy the ride along the way. I have to remind myself, 'Take a look around, look at things, and enjoy it.'
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As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man.
