Lionel Shriver Quotes
I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
Lionel Shriver
Quotes to Explore
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
Yasmine Al Masri
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Mahmoud Darwish
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
Camryn Manheim
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
Kate Mulgrew
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When you're sitting in the theater watching your own work be performed, you get to see people's reactions immediately. Unlike with a book, you don't have to wait for responses. That's very satisfying. Unless it's a joke that falls flat.
Stephen McCauley
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
Abbe Pierre
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The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.
Johnny Mathis
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I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
Laurie Colwin
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I was born after the heavy spade work of female emancipation was done.
Lionel Shriver
