Lydia M. Child Quotes
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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When you're putting good stuff into your body, you feel so much better.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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I don't run behind authority.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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I'm a bit of a Libertarian.
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When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
