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I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady.


Ruth Warrick

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RUTH GLICK My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm l...
RUTH BUZZI In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers te...
RUTH RENDELL The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
RUTH RENDELL I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective...
RUTH RENDELL One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of...
RUTH WARE I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse...
RUTH REINHARDT Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I...
RUTH NEGGA I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on beha...
RUTH BENEDICT Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
RUTH GORDON Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
BABE RUTH It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up
BABE RUTH You have to have a talent for having talent.
RUTH GORDON In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
RUTH GORDON Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ...
RUTH HUBBARD How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The har...
BABE RUTH If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTH Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
BABE RUTH Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
BABE RUTH I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
BABE RUTH All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it...
BABE RUTH Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
BABE RUTH You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won...
RUTH RENDELL Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau?
RUTH SAUNDERS M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end ...
RUTH REICHL Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye...
RUTH REINHARDT I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ...
RUTH RENDELL I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal...
RUTH REICHL Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system.
RUTH PORAT I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then...
RUTH RENDELL Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on...
RUTH PINKERTON What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were...
RUTH REICHL She's another Tina Turner is what I see,
RUTH BROWN