Alexandra Kleeman Quotes

A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.

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• Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Together
  • Team
  • Confidence

• At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

  

  Dan Hill
  • School
  • Heart
  • Man

• The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Good
  • Work
  • Long

• This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Business
  • Hell
  • Picked

• There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Fiction

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweetness
  • Richness
  • Spice

• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Character
  • Present
  • Humanity

• A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Single
  • Integrity
  • Lie

• But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Hollywood

• I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Care

• High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • High
  • Like
  • Logical

• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Darkness
  • Lights
  • Curse

• If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Equality

• I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Kind

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Health
  • Care
  • Group

• Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

  

  James Daly
  • Business

• Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of the immensely confusing creature that is woman.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Positive

• I kind of knew. I said, 'Yeah, I'm not going to be able to play in the NBA. That's just not going to happen. Let that dream go.'

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Dream

• It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society.

  

  Alice Paul
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Small

• Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Laughter

• A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.

  

  Alexandra Kleeman
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