Cynthia Stead quote: "She's got excellent educational and criminal justice credentials, and she has shown too that she has her own opinions by breaking with the governor on the (emergency contraception) bill."

Unlike some not so gracious winners in the past, she never had an enemies list. She never held it ag...
CYNTHIA STEAD

We're all expecting an announcement relatively soon, one way or the other as to whether (Romney) is ...
CYNTHIA STEAD

From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses,...
REBECCA STEAD

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough...
CHRISTINA STEAD

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I ...
REBECCA STEAD

I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fenc...
REBECCA STEAD

I never had a favourite book! I liked all kinds of things - science fiction, so I read Heinlen and R...
REBECCA STEAD

Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.
REBECCA STEAD

I would never look a gift horse in the mouth. I've had some lovely homemade earrings and, recent...
REBECCA STEAD

If all the rich men in the world divided up their money amongst themselves, there wouldn't be enough...
CHRISTINA STEAD

I've never yet met an untalented person.
MARGARET STEAD

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
CHRISTINA STEAD

Some feeling had started in my stomach and was traveling up to my face, and I knew that when it got ...
REBECCA STEAD

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried...
REBECCA STEAD

'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of...
REBECCA STEAD

If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do...
REBECCA STEAD

Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world, like a bride wears on he...
REBECCA STEAD

[she used to say that] each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world – like a ...
REBECCA STEAD

It broadcasts your availability to the work 'universe' without any of the reserve normally found in ...
MARGARET STEAD

As a rule of thumb the average back-to-work time for non-supported individuals is six or more months...
MARGARET STEAD

Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a ligh...
REBECCA STEAD

Everything looks cute when it's small.
CYNTHIA ROWLEY

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance ...
CYNTHIA OZICK

Voter caging and voter ID laws exist to disfranchise voters.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I...
CYNTHIA NIXON

The combat exclusion policy was adopted during the Clinton Administration in 1994 and says women can...
CYNTHIA DILL

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of a...
CYNTHIA OZICK

It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send th...
CYNTHIA OZICK

A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliant...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Ke...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

It was kind of like songwriter's boot camp. You had to produce. You had to produce fast. You had...
CYNTHIA WEIL

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to...
CYNTHIA KENYON

If it weren't for women, men would still be wearing last week's socks.
CYNTHIA NELMS

One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one want...
CYNTHIA OZICK

The secret to a happy marriage is to tell your spouse everything, but the essentials.
CYNTHIA NELMS

Tucker: "But she gave me the perfect gift."
Clara: "What?"
Tucker: "You.
CYNTHIA HAND

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.
CYNTHIA VOIGT

I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slep...
CYNTHIA HAND

Wondrous hole! Magical hole! Dazzlingly influential hole! Noble and effulgent hole! From this hole e...
CYNTHIA OZICK

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
CYNTHIA OZICK

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
CYNTHIA OZICK

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. We get to be responsible for our f...
CYNTHIA OZICK

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to ...
CYNTHIA OZICK

Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes co...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
CYNTHIA OZICK

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
CYNTHIA NELMS

I know it does make people happy, but to me it is just like having a cup of tea.
CYNTHIA PAYNE

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure f...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don't...
CYNTHIA NIXON

We have gone through some difficult times like everyone else and perhaps our working together and re...
CYNTHIA WEIL

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyle...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if...
CYNTHIA OZICK

To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of...
CYNTHIA OZICK

By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith Colle...
CYNTHIA VOIGT

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
CYNTHIA OZICK

If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they...
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to...
CYNTHIA NIXON

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliant...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

I didn't figure things out, either, you know. So if you'e an idiot, I guess that makes two of us." CYNTHIA HAND

One of my favourite pieces is 'Antony and Cleopatra' - I'd love to be in that. Or an alt...
CYNTHIA ERIVO

Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee...
CYNTHIA OZICK

Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don...
CYNTHIA NIXON

Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they...
CYNTHIA NIXON

The business today is completely different and it's very producer driven, so that a songwriter n...
CYNTHIA WEIL

Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I'...
CYNTHIA KENYON

You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If...
CYNTHIA HAND

What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, eve...
CYNTHIA ERIVO

An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is like...
CYNTHIA OZICK

I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanati...
CYNTHIA OZICK

There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm comp...
CYNTHIA ERIVO

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous break...
CYNTHIA WEIL

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characte...
CYNTHIA OZICK

Your good friend has just taken a piece of cake out of the garbage and eaten it. You will probably n...
CYNTHIA NIXON

I was one of those kids who was always seeking the truth, and I first looked for truth by reading no...
CYNTHIA KENYON

What's amazing with 'The X Factor' is that it gives people a chance who wouldn't nor...
CYNTHIA ERIVO

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its...
CYNTHIA OCCELLI

My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public libr...
CYNTHIA OZICK

I don't define myself. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.
CYNTHIA NIXON

I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing ap...
CYNTHIA NIXON

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to ...
CYNTHIA VOIGT

The only element still surprising was how rapidly Sherman was moving: for whichever direction I look...
CYNTHIA BASS

We are the yin and the yang of the creative process.
CYNTHIA WEIL

I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl fro...
CYNTHIA ERIVO

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

It's a different format. Classes are open and inviting.
CYNTHIA ANDERSON

Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or n...
CYNTHIA ANDERSON

We're here because we want the board of trustees and ballet management to respond to their audience,...
CYNTHIA ANDERSON

I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful balle...
CYNTHIA ANDERSON

I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democrati...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patro...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
CYNTHIA OZICK

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
CYNTHIA OZICK

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
CYNTHIA OZICK

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brillian...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
CYNTHIA OZICK

I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks...
CYNTHIA NIXON

With the new regulations, forgetting is no excuse. You have to adhere to deadlines. If you miss a de...
CYNTHIA GREEN

What are answering machines for if not to break up woth someone who bores you?
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

You know what we can be like: See a guy and think he's cute one minute, the next minute our brains h...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net.
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

The message is, we don't care about being part of the Anglican Communion.
CYNTHIA BRUST

Heir to the Glimmering World
CYNTHIA OZICK

The problem is that most male adolescents don't have discussions about reproductive health-care issu...
CYNTHIA ROSENGARD

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry...
CYNTHIA OZICK

I tell families frankly that I don't see [chelation] as benign and it's really very scary to me,
CYNTHIA JOHNSON

I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find ...
CYNTHIA NIXON

We've been busy all afternoon since the snow started. Lots of people were buying milk, bread, drinks...
CYNTHIA COLE

In fact, most told us that companies are very reluctant to allow frequent telecommuters to manage ot...
CYNTHIA MORGAN

Seventy-two percent said they'd use their ex-supervisor as a reference in finding a new job,
CYNTHIA MORGAN

I'm a restaurant person, so I want the variety (of bistro row).
CYNTHIA DAVIS

Many people don't realize that we actually produce six different newspapers and the HCN (Houston C...
CYNTHIA CALVERT

The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former a...
CYNTHIA DILL

[Like] most lads at the time, [John] was horrified by the idea of homosexuality.
CYNTHIA LENNON

Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high.
CYNTHIA WEIL

I tell families frankly that I don't see (chelation) as benign and it's really very scary to me,
CYNTHIA JOHNSON

I became a fitness fiend when I was about 17 or 18.
CYNTHIA ERIVO

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the ph...
CYNTHIA OZICK

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you...
CYNTHIA OZICK

Oh, yes. Rings, lots of rings. I'm like really into this ring thing with big chunky rings.
CYNTHIA ROWLEY

We need to stop viewing them as a choice. The patients feel guilty; the providers tell them things l...
CYNTHIA BULIK

This gives us a lot of insights we wouldn't be able to make using static images.
CYNTHIA MOSS

We're asking the judge in this case to stop the promoter from promoting their particular scam. We al...
CYNTHIA MAGNUSON

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with...
CYNTHIA HEIMEL

Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL

I don't have Steve. There is no having the Steve.
CYNTHIA NIXON

There's good news and bad news. We're definitely nowhere near being out of the woods.
CYNTHIA OGDEN

Just about everyone wants to strike out on their own sometime. But they won't do it for the money --...
CYNTHIA MORGAN

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This...
CYNTHIA OZICK

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.
CYNTHIA WEIL

I know, it's so unfair ! So if (you're a woman and) you match your partner's intake by splitting a p...
CYNTHIA SASS

We've seen an increase in obesity in men and we've seen an increase in overweight in both boys and g...
CYNTHIA OGDEN

I was particularly concerned about seeing the increase in children, because we know that children wh...
CYNTHIA OGDEN

About 17 percent of children are overweight and about a third of adults are obese.
CYNTHIA OGDEN

It's mixing everything. So, it's like, there's maybe like this linen burlap jacket car coat with a l...
CYNTHIA ROWLEY

If men liked shopping, they'd call it research.
CYNTHIA NELMS

Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but...
CYNTHIA NIXON

I may have two in the tub at a time. The little ones get in together. But the other ones take a show...
CYNTHIA LONG

In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robo...
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL

Hey, you feel like driving today?" he asks. "I don't want to walk to the bus stop. It's too cold." CYNTHIA HAND

Tucker," I say. "I'm so glad you're still here."
I throw myself into his arms. He hugs me tight...
CYNTHIA HAND

Once you trigger the sexual harassment then it almost always goes to the authorities. Had it been a ...
CYNTHIA MCNALLY

Tucker: Why would you tell me now if it's against the rules?
Clara: Because I love you.
CYNTHIA HAND

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and...
CYNTHIA KENYON

I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of...
CYNTHIA OZICK

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneelin...
CYNTHIA OZICK

The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to ...
CYNTHIA NIXON

Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka&...
CYNTHIA OZICK

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process...
CYNTHIA WEIL

Hey, Carrots," he says.
CYNTHIA HAND

Tucker: "Today we ran into a mama grizzly with two cubs at the ridge off Colter Bay and Clara sang t...
CYNTHIA HAND

Have you ever been to a place you're supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?
CYNTHIA HAND

So I'm in love. That crazy, forget to eat, float around in a daze, talk on the phone all night and b...
CYNTHIA HAND

He grins. Unbelievable how gorgeous he is. And that he's mine. He loves me and I love him and how ra...
CYNTHIA HAND

Because I love you.'

There. I said it. I can't believe I actually said it. People cast a...
CYNTHIA HAND

Sam: "I always thought you were the most beautiful of all the Nephilim."
Meg: "That's ironic be...
CYNTHIA HAND

What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott?" he asked me that night when he dropped me off fro...
CYNTHIA HAND

So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.
CYNTHIA HAND

I was never conscious of any distractions other than hearing an incredible Goffin and King lyric and...
CYNTHIA WEIL

I said people nowadays are doing some crazy stuff and that's why I teach you to not talk to stranger...
CYNTHIA WILLIAMS

Both of us have a lot of experience in our fields, and our work styles are very complementary. I'm a...
CYNTHIA DEROSIER

I think we'd be hard-pressed to find many people with the generosity of Curt Gowdy. He did whatever ...
CYNTHIA PRICE

If you find out what their intentions are, you may be able to prevent them from causing a pregnancy.
CYNTHIA ROSENGARD

I feel like we wrote a road map or a handbook to help them navigate this particularly challenging ti...
CYNTHIA GRAUBART

Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design...
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the s...
CYNTHIA OZICK

We'd surf together, then go straight to the coffee shop and have our meetings. It's amazing how much...
CYNTHIA DEROSIER

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.
CYNTHIA WEIL

It is our policy that all detainees are treated humanely and to report any suspected detainee mistre...
CYNTHIA SMITH

They would have not suspended the child without doing an investigation.
CYNTHIA MCNALLY

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

This event was really set up for the writing students at Pitt. The past winners are conducting stude...
CYNTHIA MILLER

Here in the scripture is a woman who is downright no good, ... That's what people called her. She's ...
CYNTHIA PRATT

Bishop Smith is trying to force his theology on to these six churches.
CYNTHIA BRUST

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to fr...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

Two years ago I found out about Tate Publishing. Actually, I called them about my children's stories...
CYNTHIA VELENO

None of the tobacco prevention programs designed by tobacco companies have been effective at prevent...
CYNTHIA HALLETT

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military techn...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

So you're still in love with my brother."

-Wendy Avery
CYNTHIA HAND

How did you do that?”
I shrug. “I click my heels three times and say, ‘There’s no plac...
CYNTHIA HAND

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
CYNTHIA HAND

U.S. tech workers, ... are increasingly nervous about employers' use of temporary non-U.S. citizens ...
CYNTHIA MORGAN

I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I f...
CYNTHIA VOIGT

It's never been today before.
CYNTHIA VOIGT

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people li...
CYNTHIA PAYNE

In the early '90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
CYNTHIA KENYON

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are ...
CYNTHIA KENYON

It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if th...
CYNTHIA KENYON

One of the criticisms of 'work first' is that it's really good at getting people jobs, but not as su...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY

We want to maintain a customer-oriented focus to our programs. It reminds staff that we're in a serv...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY

If I spent all of my time worrying about how I was going to live up to their standards, I don't thin...
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY

I am following two great directors.
CYNTHIA HINCKLEY

It sounds like a very high squeak.
CYNTHIA PERRINE

The girlfriend and boyfriend were arrested for corruption and defeating the ends of justice.
CYNTHIA KLEINHANS

We found the bat, using its sonar 'beam,' looks ahead of where it flies, and that there is a relatio...
CYNTHIA MOSS

She's got excellent educational and criminal justice credentials, and she has shown too that she has her own opinions by breaking with the governor on the (emergency contraception) bill.

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She's got excellent educational and criminal justice credentials, and she has shown too that she has her own opinions by breaking with the governor on the (emergency contraception) bill.

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