Margaret Elphinstone quote: "If I imagine my soul, as I do when I pray, it's shaped like Stapafel. No change of place or religion can alter that. I lived beneath Stapafel from the hour I was born until I was sixteen. I've never seen it since, but that doesn't matter. My soul is in the likeness of a jagged peak with a rock like a man standing on its summit, and snags of rock shaped like trolls along its spine. Screes defend it, although it's not quite inaccessible if you know the way up."

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...
MARGARET CHO

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to ...
MARGARET MEAD

I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.
MARGARET QUALLEY

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
MARGARET THATCHER

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. An...
MARGARET THATCHER

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway...
MARGARET THATCHER

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.
MARGARET THATCHER

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.
MARGARET THATCHER

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
MARGARET THATCHER

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it fu...
MARGARET THATCHER

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both ...
MARGARET THATCHER

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
MARGARET THATCHER

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing...
MARGARET THATCHER

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those ...
MARGARET CAVENDISH

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
MARGARET MEAD

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home...
MARGARET MEAD

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. ...
MARGARET MEAD

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare ...
MARGARET MEAD

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern son...
MARGARET WALKER

Now when you hates you shrinks up inside and gets littler and you squeezes your heart tight and you ...
MARGARET WALKER

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
MARGARET WALKER

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
MARGARET MEAD

My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?
MARGARET SMITH

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
MARGARET THATCHER

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
MARGARET THATCHER

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
MARGARET ATWOOD

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know wh...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they wa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

There's lots of institutions and lots of different cultures, and so that's the kind of thing...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holdi...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r...
MARGARET WALKER

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
MARGARET ATWOOD

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
MARGARET THATCHER

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...
MARGARET ATWOOD

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
MARGARET THATCHER

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
MARGARET THATCHER

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
MARGARET ATWOOD

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,...
MARGARET ATWOOD

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
MARGARET ATWOOD

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.
MARGARET MITCHELL

My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
MARGARET MITCHELL

So you are a vampire."

"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo...
MARGARET STOHL

Don't let the bastards grind you down.
MARGARET ATWOOD

When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER

Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO

At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,...
MARGARET CHAN

Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
MARGARET THATCHER

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
MARGARET ANDERSON

It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my st...
MARGARET GELLER

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, ev...
MARGARET WEIS

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and lea...
MARGARET THATCHER

This lady is not for turning.
MARGARET THATCHER

Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to Engla...
MARGARET ATWOOD

They've removed anything you can tie a rope to.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all...
MARGARET ATWOOD

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.
MARGARET ATWOOD

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
MARGARET THATCHER

I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and fla...
MARGARET ANDERSON

I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attrac...
MARGARET STOHL

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hot...
MARGARET STOHL

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
MARGARET THATCHER

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa...
MARGARET THATCHER

Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
MARGARET FULLER

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
MARGARET LINDSEY

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
MARGARET FULLER

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth a...
MARGARET CHO

Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. ...
MARGARET THATCHER

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
MARGARET THATCHER

Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species -- it is the tigress and lioness in yo...
MARGARET THATCHER

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any g...
MARGARET MEAD

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.
MARGARET MEAD

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER

I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not al...
MARGARET THATCHER

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
MARGARET THATCHER

One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all ...
MARGARET THATCHER

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.
MARGARET VALOIS

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is t...
MARGARET MEAD

I've been married three times -- and each time I married the right person.
MARGARET MEAD

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilizati...
MARGARET MEAD

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories,...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
MARGARET MEAD

You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
MARGARET THATCHER

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
MARGARET MEAD

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
MARGARET MEAD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD

Throughout history females have picked providers. males have picked anything.
MARGARET MEAD

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
MARGARET MEAD

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any ...
MARGARET MEAD

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
MARGARET MEAD

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamu...
MARGARET MEAD

Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle ...
MARGARET WEIS

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.
MARGARET THATCHER

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t...
MARGARET THATCHER

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marchin...
MARGARET THATCHER

In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
MARGARET THATCHER

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER

Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...
MARGARET MEAD

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic...
MARGARET ATWOOD

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.
Aunt Grace leaned closer to the boar...
MARGARET STOHL

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...
MARGARET ATWOOD

The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradual...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting ...
MARGARET MEAD

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
MARGARET OLIPHANT

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetual...
MARGARET FULLER

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elder...
MARGARET MEAD

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they g...
MARGARET HALSEY

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
MARGARET THATCHER

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly...
MARGARET MITCHELL

I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
MARGARET THATCHER

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and auto...
MARGARET MEAD

Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD

When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ...
MARGARET MEAD

People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky...
MARGARET MEAD

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
MARGARET FULLER

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER

Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi...
MARGARET BROWNLEY

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words....
MARGARET OLIPHANT

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
MARGARET GATTY

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a...
MARGARET THATCHER

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a...
MARGARET MEAD

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to t...
MARGARET MEAD

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
MARGARET SACKVILLE

I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say.
MARGARET THATCHER

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you nee...
MARGARET YOUNG

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people ins...
MARGARET HALSEY

It takes two to destroy a marriage.
MARGARET TRUDEAU

If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight.
MARGARET THATCHER

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT

There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Ph...
MARGARET FULLER

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the reclu...
MARGARET FULLER

Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e...
MARGARET MEAD

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