The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top...
NANCY GIBBS When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high...
NANCY PELOSI Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacen...
NANCY PEARCEY I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But ev...
NANCY FRIDAY All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on m...
NANCY GRACE Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying a...
NANCY PELOSI A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They a...
NANCY KRESS When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst...
NANCY WILLARD In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches...
NANCY WILLARD Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the qu...
NANCY WILLARD I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Ma...
NANCY WERLIN You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon,...
NANCY WERLIN I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is ...
NANCY WERLIN Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenag...
NANCY WERLIN There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback ...
NANCY WERLIN I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's te...
NANCY WERLIN No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book ...
NANCY WERLIN 'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fair...
NANCY WERLIN I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.
NANCY WAKE I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men...
NANCY WAKE I adored my father.
NANCY WAKE I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as t...
NANCY TRAVIS I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with...
NANCY TRAVIS The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are n...
NANCY TRAVIS To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing thin...
NANCY TRAVIS I want to do a show about a woman who's juggling a career with a relationship.
NANCY TRAVIS I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
NANCY TRAVIS 'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a g...
NANCY TRAVIS I love zoo sanctuaries.
NANCY TRAVIS No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl's heart.
NANCY THAYER The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serend...
NANCY THAYER Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll b...
NANCY SINATRA I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
NANCY SINATRA I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked a...
NANCY SINATRA I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
NANCY SINATRA I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.
NANCY SINATRA I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attentio...
NANCY SINATRA I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family too...
NANCY SINATRA His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the ...
NANCY SINATRA Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
NANCY SINATRA Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip...
NANCY SINATRA I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cru...
NANCY SINATRA After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird sit...
NANCY SINATRA There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer.
NANCY SINATRA Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his ...
NANCY SINATRA It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
NANCY SINATRA I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never go...
NANCY SINATRA I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
NANCY SINATRA Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey op...
NANCY SINATRA The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It...
NANCY SINATRA I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and...
NANCY SINATRA After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these l...
NANCY SINATRA What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else,...
NANCY SINATRA I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of creden...
NANCY SINATRA I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research uni...
NANCY ROMAN At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so op...
NANCY ROMAN I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that...
NANCY ROMAN My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own i...
NANCY ROMAN It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientifi...
NANCY ROMAN I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, but I know it was at a very young a...
NANCY ROMAN Looking through the atmosphere is somewhat like looking through a piece of old, stained glass. The g...
NANCY ROMAN One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientis...
NANCY ROMAN I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
NANCY REAGAN I'm against abortion. On the other hand, I believe in a woman's choice.
NANCY REAGAN I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.
NANCY REAGAN The movies were custard compared to politics.
NANCY REAGAN You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is differ...
NANCY REAGAN With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at t...
NANCY REAGAN I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
NANCY REAGAN I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryo...
NANCY REAGAN It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
NANCY REAGAN There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elec...
NANCY REAGAN As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
NANCY REAGAN My life really began when I married my husband.
NANCY REAGAN Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists...
NANCY REAGAN I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortio...
NANCY REAGAN I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
NANCY REAGAN Just say no to drugs!
NANCY REAGAN You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all her...
NANCY REAGAN Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
NANCY REAGAN Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie s...
NANCY PICKARD Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the sta...
NANCY PICKARD I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the book...
NANCY PICKARD I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling o...
NANCY PICKARD I go for drives in the Flint Hills, which is the setting for 'The Virgin of Small Plains'.
NANCY PICKARD I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. ...
NANCY PICKARD I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching...
NANCY PICKARD It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk abou...
NANCY PICKARD I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.
NANCY PICKARD I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things close...
NANCY PICKARD I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest,...
NANCY PICKARD I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
NANCY PICKARD Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladd...
NANCY PELOSI In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will ...
NANCY PELOSI When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an e...
NANCY PELOSI I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has b...
NANCY PELOSI I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
NANCY PELOSI The American dream is about freedom.
NANCY PELOSI Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politic...
NANCY PELOSI If you don't vote, you don't count.
NANCY PELOSI Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
NANCY PELOSI The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.
NANCY PELOSI Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.
NANCY PELOSI Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time...
NANCY PELOSI The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embr...
NANCY PELOSI America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than i...
NANCY PELOSI We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory......
NANCY PELOSI Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
NANCY PEARCEY The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
NANCY PEARCEY Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, d...
NANCY PEARCEY The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
NANCY PEARCEY Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western,...
NANCY PEARCEY The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to...
NANCY PEARCEY My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that ...
NANCY PEARCEY Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actuall...
NANCY PEARCEY Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 't...
NANCY PEARCEY Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, indepen...
NANCY PEARCEY America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Theref...
NANCY PEARCEY Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the class...
NANCY PEARCEY If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their ...
NANCY PEARCEY The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest co...
NANCY PEARCEY Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testab...
NANCY PEARCEY The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.
NANCY PEARCEY We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, w...
NANCY PEARCEY America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. ...
NANCY PEARCEY Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christian...
NANCY PEARCEY In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not...
NANCY PEARCEY I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I...
NANCY MITFORD I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.
NANCY MITFORD To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
NANCY MITFORD Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
NANCY MITFORD I'm no actor. And I wasn't like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager,...
NANCY MEYERS I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
NANCY MEYERS I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno...
NANCY MEYERS I really wanted to be a writer.
NANCY MEYERS My movies are not messed with by the studios.
NANCY MEYERS I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and ...
NANCY MEYERS I like to eat meals I will remember. Otherwise, what's the point?
NANCY MEYERS We don't want to be our own niche. We're filmmakers like everybody. How many years in a row ...
NANCY MEYERS There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You&#...
NANCY MEYERS Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all...
NANCY MEYERS I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all...
NANCY MEYERS I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Pr...
NANCY MEYERS Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.
NANCY MCKEON I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
NANCY MCKEON Actually I've never had formal training, I was lucky enough to continue working most of my caree...
NANCY MCKEON Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Depar...
NANCY MCKEON One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Ear...
NANCY MCKEON I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially ...
NANCY MCKEON At the moment I really love listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
NANCY MCKEON I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
NANCY MARCHAND I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the the...
NANCY MARCHAND Acting was something I had to do.
NANCY MARCHAND There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house,...
NANCY MARCHAND I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, ...
NANCY MARCHAND My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - a...
NANCY LUBLIN Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, bu...
NANCY LUBLIN Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are s...
NANCY LUBLIN For a long time, the for-profit world has told us in the not-for-profit sector to behave more like b...
NANCY LUBLIN Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discriminatio...
NANCY LUBLIN I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrep...
NANCY LUBLIN Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of f...
NANCY LUBLIN If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the...
NANCY LUBLIN I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the las...
NANCY LUBLIN I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young peopl...
NANCY LUBLIN I don't run a non-profit. There are lots of non-profits in America - in Detroit, parts of Wall S...
NANCY LUBLIN When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cit...
NANCY LUBLIN I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for someth...
NANCY LUBLIN Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
NANCY LUBLIN Commit yourself to an organization or cause that genuinely fires you up.
NANCY LUBLIN Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
NANCY LUBLIN I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play...
NANCY LUBLIN Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birken...
NANCY LUBLIN When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. ...
NANCY LUBLIN Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.
NANCY LUBLIN I loved junior golf.
NANCY LOPEZ If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my na...
NANCY LOPEZ Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
NANCY LOPEZ I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
NANCY LOPEZ I try to be very modest with what I do. I'm not a frivolous spender.
NANCY LOPEZ My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
NANCY LOPEZ The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
NANCY LOPEZ Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to sh...
NANCY LOPEZ Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But i...
NANCY LOPEZ If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep t...
NANCY KRESS As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
NANCY KRESS Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectua...
NANCY KRESS The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hund...
NANCY KRESS Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two peo...
NANCY KRESS Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,'...
NANCY KRESS All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with n...
NANCY KRESS The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characte...
NANCY KRESS You have considerable choice in how you end your fiction. For all stories, the basic rule is the sam...
NANCY KRESS Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a...
NANCY KRESS Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn ...
NANCY KRESS There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s...
NANCY KRESS The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these p...
NANCY KRESS The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture t...
NANCY KRESS When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can ...
NANCY KRESS In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murde...
NANCY KRESS