Elizabeth Bear Quotes

Nobody called her Moggy except for Mother, either. Nobody ever called me Kittycat except my family, and people who were looking for a fight.

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• After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Work
  • Black
  • Couple

• 'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Talent

• The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Women
  • Money
  • Fight

• I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Connect

• I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Children
  • Worry

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

  

  Iman
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Independence

• For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Grandmother
  • Loving

• I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • Better
  • Fight

• If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fight

• My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • She
  • Kids

• Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.

  

  Karen Bender
  • She
  • Job
  • Mother

• My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn't sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Mother

• Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Work
  • Art
  • Mother

• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  

  Gary Numan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• It hasn't always been a sweet ride. When I was 15, I almost hated racing in finals because I was so nervous. But as I got more experienced, I had to choose between fight and flight - and I've fought every time.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Time
  • Sweet
  • Fight

• My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mother
  • Hero
  • Greatest

• I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Know
  • Marketing
  • Others

• One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

  

  Andre Balazs
  • Travel

• The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Write
  • Literacy
  • Illiterates

• On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Job

• The big deal is not that a computer technician made a mistake, ... The big deal is how the White House reacted to it.

  

  Dan Burton
  • House
  • Mistake
  • Made

• Nobody called her Moggy except for Mother, either. Nobody ever called me Kittycat except my family, and people who were looking for a fight.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Mother
  • Fight
  • My Family