Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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• What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• You just have to go to bat and take a swing. And if you're not right for a part, or it goes to a British man, they may remember that you showed up, knew your lines and were good. And maybe they'll call you in for something else.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Up
  • Good
  • May

• When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • You
  • Fear
  • Scared

• Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Take Advantage

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Shy

• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Great
  • Black
  • Woman

• Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as 'stronger' on terrorism than its main rival, the Labour Party?

  

  Peter Bergen
  • May
  • Political
  • Party

• Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to identify speakers through 'voiceprints,' akin to fingerprints, eventually reducing the need for personal identification numbers.

  

  Alex Berenson

• That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?

  

  Jim Barksdale
  • Business

• The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • World

• Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?

  

  Brian Van Holt
  • She

• The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that group's 20/50 vision also had it tsking its disapproval about Michael Keaton as Batman and Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Community
  • Vision
  • Green

• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Be Able
  • Сatcher's Mitt

• I've never gone to comedy clubs.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Comedy

• Any setting can be a good setting for a novel.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Good

• The question is not really about a shift to the economic cone where officers are writing about the balance of payments and the need for economic stabilization.

  

  Lawrence Eagleburger
  • Writing
  • Question
  • Balance

• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  

  Kate Zambreno
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

  

  Jack Garratt

• I was like a waitress that got a job once in a while, and then Stifler's mom happened, and everything changed.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Job
  • Mom

• In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

  

  Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Fact