Wednesday Martin (Wendy Martin) Quotes

It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.

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• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Good
  • Cool
  • Story

• Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.

  

  Barbara Mertz
  • Book
  • Problem
  • Ideas

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• Most women don't do regular breast self examinations, mainly because they are either intimidated by what they might find, or they're confused as to how to do the self exam correctly. 'Liv Aid' eliminates all of these concerns because it makes breast self exams easy to perform.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Women
  • Easy
  • Self

• When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Talk
  • Expect

• If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Challenge
  • Genius
  • Mood

• Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Power
  • Man
  • Beware

• We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Run
  • Systems
  • Fossil Fuels

• I loved couriers. You had this transfer of physical information happening throughout the city and the world. Someone picking up the package, putting it in a bag, going somewhere, taking it out of the bag, giving it to someone else. I thought that was so cool. I wanted to map it, to see that flow on a big screen.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Up
  • World
  • Giving

• This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Life
  • Art
  • Why

• Krapp: Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Fire

• I know that many will call this useless work.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Nice

• I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Water

• In the beginning of your mixed martial arts career, you're not making good money.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Career

• A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

  

  Chanakya
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Night

• All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

  

  Caravaggio
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Words
  • Powerful

• The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense activity of his work or in the restful equipoise of his forces, is powerful, involuntarily and composedly powerful, but he is not avid for power. What he is avid for is the realization of what he has in mind, the incarnation of the spirit.

  

  Martin Buber
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Nature
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.

  

  Wednesday Martin
  • Powerful
  • Married
  • Middle