If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN Clothes and courage have much to do with each other.
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serv...
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in
SARA JEANNETTE DUNCAN Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
JEANNETTE WALLS I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.
JEANNETTE RANKIN The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose either to accept her appointed rol...
JEANNETTE RANKIN Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little mo...
JEANNETTE WALLS The women I know with strong personalities, the ones who might have become generals or the heads of ...
JEANNETTE WALLS Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't co...
JEANNETTE WALLS It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough...
JEANNETTE RANKIN You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
JEANNETTE RANKIN So they told us all about how other kids were deceived by their parents, how the toys the grown-ups ...
JEANNETTE WALLS Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we ar...
JEANNETTE WALLS You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You h...
JEANNETTE WALLS Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
JEANNETTE WALLS I'm a big believer in luck - the harder you work, the luckier you become.
JEANNETTE WALLS One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
JEANNETTE WALLS We have to get it into our heads once and for all that we cannot settle disputes by eliminating huma...
JEANNETTE RANKIN I listen to music mostly in the evening. I've come to love what is called world music, like the ...
JEANNETTE WALLS The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
JEANNETTE RANKIN Some people who've read my story think I had a terrible childhood and that I was neglected or ev...
JEANNETTE WALLS Might it not be that a great force that has always been thinking in terms of human needs, and that a...
JEANNETTE RANKIN My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
JEANNETTE WALLS It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national...
JEANNETTE RANKIN What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot...
JEANNETTE RANKIN The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorab...
JEANNETTE RANKIN I found the gas," he said. "Now all's I need to do is find the brake.
JEANNETTE WALLS What Dad didn't understand was that no matter how much he hated or feared the future, it was coming,...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you get down, all you need to do is act like you're feeling good, and next thing you know, you ar...
JEANNETTE WALLS It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I not...
JEANNETTE WALLS As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think ...
JEANNETTE WALLS It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look for...
JEANNETTE WALLS People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize wh...
JEANNETTE WALLS Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species.
JEANNETTE DESOR What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be ...
JEANNETTE RANKIN Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go
JEANNETTE RANKIN As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else
JEANNETTE RANKIN You can no more win a war that you can win an earthquake
JEANNETTE RANKIN That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten
people, but the minute...
JEANNETTE WALLS You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If y...
JEANNETTE WALLS I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn&#...
JEANNETTE WALLS You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive-only the rat does as well.
JEANNETTE DESOR I had always wanted a watch. Unlike diamonds, watches were practical. They were for people on the ru...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.
JEANNETTE WALLS Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your star...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
JEANNETTE WALLS Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that...
JEANNETTE WALLS The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mot...
JEANNETTE WALLS I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the windo...
JEANNETTE WALLS When Dad wasn’t telling us about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us abo...
JEANNETTE WALLS Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behav...
JEANNETTE WALLS There was nothing to compare with standing on a piece of land you owned free and clear. No one could...
JEANNETTE WALLS Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potentia...
JEANNETTE WALLS We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa myth and got nothing for Christmas but a bun...
JEANNETTE WALLS The way Mom saw it, women should let menfolk do the work because it made them feel more manly. That ...
JEANNETTE WALLS There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into...
JEANNETTE RANKIN What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be ...
JEANNETTE RANKIN You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man
JEANNETTE WALLS Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.
JEANNETTE RANKIN I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushi...
JEANNETTE WALLS I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.
JEANNETTE WALLS Mom asked me if I was okay. I shrugged and nodded. “Well, there you go”, she said. She said that...
JEANNETTE WALLS War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possib...
JEANNETTE RANKIN Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.
JEANNETTE WALLS It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.
JEANNETTE WALLS I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all...
JEANNETTE WALLS I hate Erma," I told Mom...
"You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should ...
JEANNETTE WALLS You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is ...
JEANNETTE WALLS Whoever coined the phrase 'a man's got to play the hand that was dealt him' was most certainly one p...
JEANNETTE WALLS Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who li...
JEANNETTE WALLS Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good fo...
JEANNETTE WALLS Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same...
JEANNETTE WALLS Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook ...
JEANNETTE WALLS But I also hoped that [she] had chosen California because she thought that was her true home, the pl...
JEANNETTE WALLS We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of c...
JEANNETTE WALLS Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.
JEANNETTE WALLS One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.
JEANNETTE WALLS No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one...
JEANNETTE WALLS She had her addictions and one of them was reading.
JEANNETTE WALLS I never believed in Santa Claus. None of us kids did. Mom and Dad refused to let us. They couldn't a...
JEANNETTE WALLS I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to ha...
JEANNETTE WALLS I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept ...
JEANNETTE WALLS If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim
JEANNETTE WALLS ....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'texture...
JEANNETTE WALLS One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it ...
JEANNETTE WALLS Since Mom wasn't exactly the most useful person in the world, one lesson I learned at an early age w...
JEANNETTE WALLS A lady's hair is her crowning glory
JEANNETTE WALLS Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure ...
JEANNETTE WALLS You know, at this juncture, all we can do is pray it doesn't come this way and tear us up.
JEANNETTE RUBOYIANES They're involved in that a lot; it'll be a class project.
JEANNETTE MANCHESTER We love to include letters and cards, because no matter what we send them, ... the letters and the c...
JEANNETTE MANCHESTER We're strong in the middle of the field, but weak on both sides. It's a matter of how fast the young...
JEANNETTE IRELAND We are learning more hockey instead of battling the field and learning the bumps.
JEANNETTE IRELAND He knew that (the rules) and still took a key and went in there. So we are absolutely not going to u...
JEANNETTE CHRISTOS I don't have time to baby-sit every single person. When you go through training and people don't wan...
JEANNETTE CHRISTOS I don't know how to live any place else. We were born and raised in a small community, Spanish commu...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO Take my family - I have two brothers, his brother, a son and daughter, our house and my mother and o...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO We don't know. If they tell you you can't live there anymore, then what? We looked at living here, b...
JEANNETTE ALFONSO The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights bol...
JEANNETTE WALLS If I owned hell and west Texas, he said, I do believe I'd sell west Texas and live in hell.
JEANNETTE WALLS As we mature in faith, our willingness is tested, expanded, and refined. We become more conscious of...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE Do not expect trust to appear suddenly and in a state of completion. Trust grows gradually as we ven...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE The opportunity to tell our story unhindered, uninterrupted is rare. Most of the time people are so ...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enable...
JEANNETTE A. BAKKE I closed my eyes, but that didn't blur the images his words had evoked. "Oh, God," I murmured.
...
JEANNETTE DE BEAUVOIR When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things ...
SARA SAMPAIO I had all kinds of fantasies, like a lot of girls, but did I actually go through the motions of plan...
SARA RAMIREZ Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - fro...
SARA BLAKELY , The Hidden Power of the Heart Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are...
SARA PADDISON , The Hidden Power of the Heart Each moment is a doorway to time travel. Being in this very moment ...
SARA PADDISON I'm done losing weight, I feel great, and I love looking like a woman. I love being curvy and ha...
SARA RUE Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soar...
SARA TEASDALE I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
SARA TEASDALE When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth...
SARA TEASDALE I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.
SARA TEASDALE I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fict...
SARA SHEPARD My body doesn't have a lot of curves; I have small breasts, I don't have hips - so I'm n...
SARA SAMPAIO Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
SARA GRUEN Just like the strangers who'd fed me in El Salvador or South Africa, I was going to have to see and ...
SARA MILES When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. Ther...
SARA PADDISON Care is the ingredient that keeps true friendships alive despite separation, distance, or time. Care...
SARA PADDISON You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. Wh...
SARA PADDISON It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise
SARA TEASDALE Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have ...
SARA SHERIDAN The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kind...
SARA SHERIDAN From my spirit's gray defeat,
From my pulse's flagging beat,
From my hopes that turned t...
SARA TEASDALE I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay
SARA EVANS If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations...
GRACE SARA Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn...
GRACE SARA Even on my weakest days
I get a little bit stronger
SARA EVANS Occasionally all you need is a minute of courage to break into a world of opportunity.
SARA SECORA Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be you...
SARA SHEPARD I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
SARA TEASDALE Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
SARA TEASDALE Then, like an old-time orator impressively he rose; I make the most of all that comes and the least ...
SARA TEASDALE Appreciating each other is a true family value, one that will bail out much of the stress on the pla...
SARA PADDISON Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
SARA TEASDALE Though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams...
SARA TEASDALE You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You ...
SARA PADDISON Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't...
SARA PADDISON My favorite nights out are the most random ones - when they start at a bowling alley and end up some...
SARA SAMPAIO I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month be...
SARA SHERIDAN There aren't a lot of Portuguese models, so everyone always expects me to be Brazilian because o...
SARA SAMPAIO I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my te...
SARA ZARR I think, at the end of the day, acting and activism are both about empathy. You're trying to get...
SARA RAMIREZ There's nothing like the first kiss once you've been pronounced husband and wife. It's s...
SARA RAMIREZ My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my yo...
SARA PARETSKY It took me nine months to write 60 pages. It was very frustrating.
SARA PARETSKY I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues.
SARA PARETSKY You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.
SARA PARETSKY I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.
SARA PARETSKY I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book.
SARA PARETSKY I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
SARA PARETSKY I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.
SARA PARETSKY I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY I'm a daydreamer.
SARA PARETSKY I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
SARA PARETSKY I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a...
SARA PARETSKY Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of tell...
SARA PARETSKY I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI...
SARA PARETSKY Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Super...
SARA PARETSKY In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of books...
SARA PARETSKY I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where...
SARA PARETSKY I live and die with the Chicago Cubs.
SARA PARETSKY White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.
SARA PARETSKY Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.
SARA PARETSKY People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secret...
SARA PARETSKY The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
SARA PARETSKY I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invalua...
SARA PARETSKY I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other...
SARA PARETSKY I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.
SARA PARETSKY Acting was my after-school activity. I never planned on growing up and becoming an actor.
SARA PAXTON It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become mem...
SARA BLAKELY I think I have some anger-management issues, and they end up coming out in these passive-aggressive ...
SARA BAREILLES I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my ...
SARA BLAKELY For me, a snack is supposed to be unhealthy! I like having chips or popcorn when I'm on set.
SARA SAMPAIO In one breath, I release all negative feelings and fearful thoughts, then fill up my lungs with wond...
SARA BAYSINGER When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl k...
SARA RAMIREZ The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from...
SARA GRUEN I kept a journal when I was a teenager, so I definitely look back on those to see how I dealt with f...
SARA SHEPARD Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soar...
SARA TEASDALE I grew up loving classic rock music - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones - and then one day I heard ...
SARA PAXTON My Mexican specialty is chilaquiles. I make tortillas from scratch, then add garlic, onions, eggs, c...
SARA RAMIREZ Wisdom

When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things...
SARA TEASDALE Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands.
SARA ZARR Congratulations, everyone," I announce as I open the door to Noam's study. "You've finally broken Me...
SARA RAASCH Because true beauty comes from within, from the person you are.
SARA ELLA Child, child, love while you can
The voice and the eyes and the soul of a man;
Never fea...
SARA TEASDALE Love is a slippery slope and it's so easy to fall.
SARA HUMPHREYS I used to not have any confidence when it came to my body - I developed very late in terms of being ...
SARA SAMPAIO Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic...
SARA PARETSKY I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attit...
SARA BLAKELY I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my rese...
SARA CANNING I think that everybody would love to play the bad girl, 'cause for most of us, it's a stretc...
SARA FOSTER When I've lost weight, some fans get very upset because they want me to stay curvy. But my own s...
SARA RAMIREZ , The Hidden Power of the Heart As you sincerely go for deeper levels of love, the results you'll h...
SARA PADDISON We need to see better to be better.
SARA NILES Sluts don't have a choice, darling. And you've forfeited yours.
SARA CRAVEN