Elizabeth Bear Quotes

We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill.

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• When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Big
  • Club
  • Straight

• I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Think
  • You
  • Go

• All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Friends
  • You
  • Like

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Good
  • Year
  • Opportunities

• Politics ruins the character.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Character
  • Politics
  • Ruins

• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creative

• Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Different
  • School
  • Education

• I don't want to be submerged by depression.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Want
  • Depression
  • Submerged

• Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Today
  • Blow

• We smooch hardcore.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• I would love to do a Fred Astaire/Gene Kelly type movie musical - a fun, song and dance, romantic comedy. Or, even just play the lead in one of those broad comedies - that would just be fantastic.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Song

• We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Future
  • Growth

• Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Different
  • Book
  • Song

• I stay out of the sun; it's terrible for the skin of any woman over 35. If you must have a suntan, at least keep moving while you're in the sun.

  

  Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Moving
  • Sun

• A wounded healer, I think, is a lot more powerful than a healer that has not been wounded. In 'Weaker Girl,' I was coming from a wounded healer's perspective.

  

  Jillian Rose Banks
  • Girl
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• It has to come from a truthful place in order to be funny.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Funny

• Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

  

  Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Different
  • Society
  • Boy

• I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Great
  • Love
  • King

• I think I have it all. But I won't say that the credit for all that goes to me. I think the credit for all that goes to everybody around me. I mean, I have it all because my entire family is so cooperative. I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there. So, I think it's, you know, in a way, a two-way street.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Children
  • Family

• The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise a hand again.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Stop
  • Hand
  • Fire

• To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Create

• We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Children
  • Blood
  • Create