I'm going to turn in early and keep wading through The Pity of War. Ferguson overturns everything anyone ever thought they knew about the origins of World War I.
Wed May 01 2002 19:07:
Uneventful day. I went to work, tested my students, worked in the lab. Blah blah. One student didn't show up for the test. She is a Naughty Girl. After lunch with the ladies I came home and crashed. Now I have made salad (homegrown lettuce and onions, commercial other stuff) for me and Susie. The Book Group is going to the screening of To Kill a Mockingbird, but I decided not to go because the tummy is unhappy.
It's so beautifully arranged on the plate--you know someone's fingers have been all over it. --Julia Child
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has
become of the discipline. --Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night, p. 89
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other, there is no meeting, and when friends are apart, there is no separation.
--Simone Weil
Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives. --Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters
down, to strengthen whilst one stands. --Christina Rosetti
The only constructive approach to evaluating human differences is to take each as an opportunity to learn more about the rich diversity of the human
condition, and to take what one learns as a gift that will enrich one's own life. --Ruth Purtilo
Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that the
tranquil flame of her unspoiled soul should radiate purity and nobility upon an indefinitely extended family. --Rebecca West, 1913
“When you know better, you do better.” --Maya Angelou, in a speech at BYU, 1970 or 1971, in response to LDS former doctrine
about blacks
Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief. --Jane Austen, Emma
Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives. --Jane Austen, Emma
"When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country." --- Elayne Boosler
"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." --- Gilda Radner
"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman." --- Maryon Pearson
"Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a
male schlemiel." --- Bella Abzug
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman." --- Margaret Thatcher
"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary." ---
Margaret Atwood
"I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career." --- Gloria Steinem
"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry." --- Gloria Steinem
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then." --- Katharine
Hepburn
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I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every
morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night." --- Marie Corelli
"Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths." --- Baroness Edith Summerskill
"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?" ---
Linda Ellerbee
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the
heck she is. --Ellen DeGeneris
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. --Rita Rudner
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. --Carol Leifer
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't you're right. --Mary Kay Ash
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. --Margaret Thatcher
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up, for
that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. --Harriet Beecher Stowe
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. --Louisa May Alcott
The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul. --Rona
Barrett
When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at
ourselves. --Katherine Mansfield
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. --Bernadette Devlin
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. --Joan Baez
Action is the antidote to despair. --Joan Baez
My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. --Bette Midler
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. --Dolly Parton
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. --Kathleen
Norris
I used to think there was luck in the world…but now I know it’s luck with two halves. You’re in the right place at the right time, and that’s luck. But
you’re only half of it. Whatever or whoever’s waiting for you has to be there, too. So you only ever carry half of the combination of luck around with
you…and you’ve got to be ready, and by that I mean both determined and receptive. --Judith Freeman, in The Chinchilla Farm
We are not here to be successful; we are here to be faithful and to live with integrity. --Mother Teresa
Man is not by nature a tyrant, but becomes a tyrant by power conferred on him. --Lucretia Mott
I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than to believe, to inquire
rather than to affirm. --Septima Clark, 1975
I am made in the image of God, good as I am, without unnecessary adornment. --Kathleen Norris
If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory. --Carrie Chapman Catt
None of us can do anything great on our own, but we can all do a small thing with great love. --Mother Teresa
The heaviest burden is great potential. --Jan Temple
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. --Anne
Bradstreet
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow
there, firm as weeds among rocks. --Charlotte Bronte
And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White
House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! --Barbara Bush, commencement address to Wellesley College
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize
that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. --Isadora Duncan
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. --Mary Tyler Moore
Take your work seriously, but never yourself. --Dame Margot Fonteyn
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. --Lee Grant
Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was, "Fine. If you don't ask for details." --Katharine Hepburn
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. --Erica Jong
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for
us. --Helen Keller
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. --Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. --Billie Jean King
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. --Sophia Loren
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. --Mignon McLaughlin
The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. --Bette Midler
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are
grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? --Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work. --Rosa Parks
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and
end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious
Ambiguity. --Gilda Radner
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. --Lily Tomlin
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if
there is a light from within. --Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Age is not important unless you're a cheese. --Helen Hayes
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views
become more extensive. --Ingrid Bergman
Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to
Adam could not satisfy. --Elizabeth Cady Stanton
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot? --Gloria Steinem
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother. But there's a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. --Roseanne Barr
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. --Eleanor Roosevelt
You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. --Martha Graham (1894-1994)
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. --Anne
Frank
When will our conscience grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? --Eleanor Roosevelt
Wed May 01 2002 19:39:
Quotations from Women:
Never eat more than you can lift. --Miss Piggy