Marie Stopes Quotes
Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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I owe everything to France.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
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HIV/AIDS has no boundaries.
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E’en like the passage of an angel’s tearThat falls through the clear ether silently.
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We could have had it all...
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My family means more to me than the artificial trappings of my career. If ever I had to choose between my career and my family, the wife and kids would definitely come out on top.
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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
