Elizabeth Lesser Quotes

Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that's scary - that's scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.

Elizabeth Lesser

• Woman
• Emotional
• Scary
• Brutal

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• When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

  

  Tacitus
  • Woman
  • Chastity

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• Do I feel that white directors have to tell only white stories? No. Do I feel that black filmmakers should only tell stories about black people? No. If we say that, then that means Asian people cannot write about anybody but Asians. I don't think a woman should only write about women.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Theatre
  • Scary

• Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• As a Christian, I view relationships and marriage as being between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Christian
  • Marriage

• There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Free
  • Woman
  • Relationships

• Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

  

  Galen Weston
  • Business
  • Growing
  • Place

• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • High
  • Always
  • Emotional

• Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Long
  • Country
  • Want

• I love 'Love Actually.' 'Love Actually,' there's, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don't know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

  

  Gallant
  • Live
  • Want
  • Emotional

• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Emotional
  • Painful
  • Luxury

• The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Black
  • Woman
  • Guilty

• If you put a much older woman in 'Doctor Who,' they can identify with it. I think it's quite an interesting concept, and if you remember things like 'Grimm's Fairytales,' the older woman is often the villainess, often the terrifying figure - why I do not know, but often she is. I think it's an idea to be exploited.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Why
  • She
  • Remember

• It's just so cool to be able to go out to dinner and buy my mom's dinner now. You know what I mean? She's just done so much for me. I love that I can give back to her now because she's the most amazing woman ever.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Love
  • Know
  • Amazing

• I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Love
  • Woman

• The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • Life
  • Death
  • Child

• Normally, it's one or the other - a pretty, straight woman or a more charactery woman who isn't supposed to be attractive. But women like Tina Fey are leading the charge on being both. You can be funny and attractive.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Today
  • Building
  • Ghost

• The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

  

  Craig L. Thomas
  • Power
  • War
  • Environment

• God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • God
  • Doors
  • Open

• Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that's scary - that's scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Woman
  • Emotional
  • Scary