Brenda Shaughnessy Quotes
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I really love storytelling.
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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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.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.
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A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.
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I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
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Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.
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History is subjective. History is alterable. History is, finally, little more than modeling clay in a very warm room.
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When a woman you love hits you on the head with a book you love, is that love?
