I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.


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When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well tha...
LAURA SPENCER
I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classe...
LAURA SPENCER
Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very mu...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I climb mountains.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they li...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the ha...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with ...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I love revenge.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you s...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its ow...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A me...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER
I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ...
LAURA ROBSON
I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to...
LAURA ROBSON
I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to...
LAURA ROBSON
If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to f...
LAURA ROBSON
I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre...
LAURA ROBSON
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
LAURA ROBSON
If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha...
LAURA ROBSON
I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Mi...
LAURA ROBSON
There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
LAURA ROBSON
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
LAURA RIDING
If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo...
LAURA RIDING
I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma...
LAURA RIDING
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which...
LAURA RIDING
The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...
LAURA RIDING
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn...
LAURA RIDING
I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi...
LAURA RIDING
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...
LAURA RIDING
Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for...
LAURA RIDING
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our...
LAURA RIDING
I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c...
LAURA RICKETTS
My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome...
LAURA RICKETTS
Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a...
LAURA RICKETTS
I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ...
LAURA RICKETTS
When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent...
LAURA RICKETTS