Gloria Naylor quote: "A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you."

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
GLORIA NAYLOR

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
GLORIA NAYLOR

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.
GLORIA NAYLOR

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life...
GLORIA NAYLOR

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to l...
GLORIA NAYLOR

Even though the planet is round, there are just too many spots where you can find yourself hanging o...
GLORIA NAYLOR

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us ...
GLORIA NAYLOR

I haven't seen you in a while, yet I often imagine all your expressions. I haven't spoken to you rec...
GLORIA NAYLOR

true friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; it's about being there when it's not.
GLORIA NAYLOR

The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, then walk a...
GLORIA NAYLOR

Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystallize at any give...
GLORIA NAYLOR

His entire life was becoming a race against the natural -- and he was winning.
GLORIA NAYLOR

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Lif...
GLORIA NAYLOR

Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a look around you whenever you ...
GLORIA NAYLOR

I've learned that no matter how good a friend someone is, they're going to hurt you every once in aw...
GLORIA NAYLOR

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire ...
GLORIA NAYLOR

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it ...
GLORIA NAYLOR

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.
GLORIA NAYLOR

It ain't really what you'd call change. It's all happened before and it'll happen again with a diffe...
GLORIA NAYLOR

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live with...
GLORIA NAYLOR

Life is accepting what is and working from that.
GLORIA NAYLOR

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body - an overwhelming sense of calm...
GLORIA NAYLOR

A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experie...
GLORIA NAYLOR

I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was...
GLORIA NAYLOR

But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable eithe...
GLORIA NAYLOR

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.
GLORIA NAYLOR

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a rea...
TOM NAYLOR

We know there were some refrigerant lines that were within the structure of the trailer itself. We s...
DALE NAYLOR

It wasn't a beautiful face. But it was a nice face. It wasn't a face that could launch a thousand sh...
GRANT NAYLOR

We wrapped up about 10:30 last night what we consider to be our rescue effort.
DALE NAYLOR

I've dealt with death a lot, but nothing like this.
DALE NAYLOR

At this time, we don't believe there are any [more] survivors at this point. We are going to continu...
DALE NAYLOR

A forage test will tell you how good the hay is and how much you can afford to pay for it.
GARY NAYLOR

Figure the average weight of your cows, and you can estimate how much hay you will need per cow.
GARY NAYLOR

The boys would talk about their three 'daddies,' and they seemed happy with the whole thing.
JANET NAYLOR

It's your worst nightmare. They were just so funny.
JANET NAYLOR

That's when they saw there was blood.
JANET NAYLOR

Patrick and I were about as different as two people could possibly be. Nothing embarrasses Patrick v...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

If you are embarrassed about your sex, it must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or di...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway.
'Never use one,' said Lester, exam...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

The world is full of unrequited love,' I said finally.
'You and Patrick having problems?' Dad s...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives, With many, many lady friends And many, many wive...
JAMES BALL NAYLOR

Sexually active? Sexually active? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissin...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

I know, but if I feel this bad for Gramps, how am I going to feel when it’s Dad?” Tyler told me....
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

I sure wasn't going to ask Aunt Sally, because if she told me once that getting your period was like...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes...
PHYLLIS REYNOLDS NAYLOR

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
GLORIA STEINEM

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ...
GLORIA STEINEM

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered que...
GLORIA GAITHER

My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wo...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future.
GLORIA REUBEN

In my own mind, I am still a fat brunette from Toledo, and I always will be.
GLORIA STEINEM

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
GLORIA STEINEM

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage ...
GLORIA GAYNOR

What has the women's movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro's candidacy for vice president?...
GLORIA STEINEM

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
GLORIA STEINEM

Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from ...
GLORIA STEINEM

If you ask men about their body image, they will tell you they look better than they do. And if you ...
GLORIA STEINEM

We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.
GLORIA STEINEM

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Po...
GLORIA STEINEM

There's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
GLORIA STEINEM

Nothing changes the gender equation more significantly than women's economic freedom.
GLORIA STEINEM

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there'...
GLORIA STEINEM

The problem for all women is we're identified by how we look instead of by our heads and our hea...
GLORIA STEINEM

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling...
GLORIA STEINEM

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.
GLORIA STEINEM

Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar...
GLORIA STEINEM

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but to...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM

Touring is hard. It's really hard on the singer, especially, because your body is your instrumen...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM

The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity ...
GLORIA SWANSON

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywo...
GLORIA SWANSON

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy ...
GLORIA STEINEM

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
GLORIA STEINEM

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle...
GLORIA STEINEM

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.
GLORIA STEINEM

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Procrastination is my sin. It brings me naught but sorrow. I know that I should stop it. In fact, I ...
GLORIA PITZER

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
GLORIA STEINEM

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
GLORIA STEINEM

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...
GLORIA STEINEM

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible ...
GLORIA STEINEM

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, wh...
GLORIA WHELAN

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.
GLORIA STEINEM

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tom...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations...
GLORIA STEINEM

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
GLORIA STEINEM

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some g...
GLORIA STEINEM

I am big. It's the pictures that got small.
GLORIA SWANSON

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a co...
GLORIA STEINEM

The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be d...
GLORIA STEINEM

Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the common-sensical reply...
GLORIA STEINEM

For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us kn...
GLORIA STEINEM

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step ...
GLORIA STEINEM

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD

Pornography is about dominance. Erotica is about mutuality.
GLORIA STEINEM

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
GLORIA SWANSON

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Toys tossed on the floor
Hand prints on the wall
Slamming of the door
And footsteps down t...
GLORIA BABB

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
GLORIA STEINEM

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his wo...
GLORIA STEINEM

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.
GLORIA STEINEM

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.
GLORIA STEINEM

. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the val...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...
GLORIA STEINEM

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
GLORIA STEINEM

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.
GLORIA STEINEM

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
GLORIA STEINEM

We are becoming the men we wanted to marry
GLORIA STEINEM

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about in...
GLORIA STEINEM

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are...
GLORIA STEINEM

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as eit...
GLORIA STEINEM

You can see the absence of women in governing bodies from Congress to state legislators, on corporat...
GLORIA STEINEM

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with tha...
GLORIA STEINEM

'Ms.' always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at...
GLORIA STEINEM

There's no shortage of great young activists.
GLORIA STEINEM

Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by...
GLORIA STEINEM

Burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle.
GLORIA STEINEM

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.
GLORIA ESTEFAN

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.
GLORIA ESTEFAN

The error that we tend to make is that we think that women's magazines are what editors want and...
GLORIA STEINEM

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
GLORIA STEINEM

I think Hefner himself wants to go down in history as a person of sophistication and glamour. But th...
GLORIA STEINEM

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.
GLORIA STEINEM

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...
GLORIA STEINEM

I'm very comfortable in my own skin now. I started just being myself more and more. For women, t...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.
GLORIA STUART

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.
GLORIA ALLRED

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn...
GLORIA STUART

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone c...
GLORIA STEINEM

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.
GLORIA SWANSON

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of...
GLORIA SWANSON

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in way...
GLORIA REUBEN

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me l...
GLORIA WHELAN

I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation ...
GLORIA STEINEM

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.
GLORIA SWANSON

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting...
GLORIA STEINEM

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
GLORIA STEINEM

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in whic...
GLORIA STEINEM

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support...
GLORIA ALLRED

The Native American cultures on this continent, most of them, were matrilineal, and some women were ...
GLORIA STEINEM

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will yo...
GLORIA WHELAN

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.
GLORIA STEINEM

We are still behaving as if a worker really doesn't have a family because the work pattern reall...
GLORIA STEINEM

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more...
GLORIA STEINEM

I was born during an eclipse. I believe very much in astrology. If you were born on an eclipse it in...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey He...
GLORIA STEINEM

As an immigrant, I appreciate, far more than the average American, the liberties we have in this cou...
GLORIA ESTEFAN

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's...
GLORIA STEINEM

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and al...
GLORIA ALLRED

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it ...
GLORIA STEINEM

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.
GLORIA ESTEFAN

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetit...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

I could have had someone else take care of my child but I did it because that was my moral obligatio...
GLORIA ALLRED

I think I sound like Barry White.
GLORIA GAYNOR

The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that ...
GLORIA STEINEM

Being misunderstood by people whose opinions you value is absolutely the most painful.
GLORIA STEINEM

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
GLORIA SWANSON

I think everyone envisions me sitting at Alexandre's all day, picking out beautiful clothes from...
GLORIA GUINNESS

Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they...
GLORIA STEINEM

Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
GLORIA STEINEM

The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn, but to unlearn.
GLORIA STEINEM

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.
GLORIA STEINEM

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
GLORIA STEINEM

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the stat...
GLORIA STEINEM

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
GLORIA STEINEM

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
GLORIA STEINEM

I can't mate in captivity.
GLORIA STEINEM

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.
GLORIA SWANSON

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.
GLORIA SWANSON

Women are more than smart enough to see that McCain's policies are a disaster... He is anti- eve...
GLORIA STEINEM

Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life.
GLORIA STEINEM

Many times, working is kind of like channeling, and I really don't know what's going to fall...
GLORIA VANDERBILT

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years...
GLORIA STEINEM

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.
GLORIA ESTEFAN

I'm so happy that we're finally hearing the stories and voices of women who make America. We...
GLORIA STEINEM

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
GLORIA STEINEM

Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future...
GLORIA REUBEN

You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding ...
GLORIA STEINEM

I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
GLORIA SWANSON

A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

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A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

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