Serious Quotes

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we are pushing out our babies. We are too often treated like babies having babies when we should be in training, like acolytes, novices to high priestesshood, like serious applicants for the space program.

Louise Erdrich
- Women
- High
- Strong
The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling

Kabir

You have to be serious-minded in business, but not take yourself seriously.

Diego Della Valle
- Business
- Serious
We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.

Blake Farenthold
- People
- Stop
- Immigration
It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.

Mark Zuckerberg
- Serious
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

Marilynne Robinson
When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as an individual with that tongue-in-cheek kind of humor...well, it didn't always lend itself to my poetry. When you're writing poetry, it's like working with gold, you can't waste anything. You have to be very economical with each word you're going to select. But when you're writing fiction, you can just go on and on; you can be more playful. My editor's main task is to cut back, not ask for more.

Ana Castillo
- People
- Thinking
- Writing
The only gay people who remain in the closet are those who choose to, who don't want to publicly declare their sexuality, which is true of heterosexual people as well. I don't walk around with a button or a T-shirt that says "I am a heterosexual." I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely. Although God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

William Friedkin
- People
- Thinking
- Taken