The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room "in time" during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises.


Gabrielle Giffords

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been one of my good friends in the House of Representatives. Wh...
CHELLIE PINGREE
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander...
SALLY RIDE
The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her...
C. JOYBELL C.
Brigan was saying her name, and he was sending her a feeling. It was courage and strength, and somet...
KRISTIN CASHORE
Such property, as well as a gift subsequent and what was given ,to her by her affectionate husband, ...
GURU NANAK
A woman can be judged by her cooking, her dressing and her husband.
VIKRANT PARSAI
If I told her how I feel, she'd miss me even more. Afterall, I'm the guy who keeps breaking her hear...
GOSHO AOYAMA
He went to her room and grabbed her by the neck, started to strangle her and punched her a couple of...
RAPHAEL BERGERON
In every charge, in every count, she was an active participant in the sexual assault of these childr...
DAVID LAMB
you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learn...
IAIN PEARS
It broke his heart because she started to consider that her home. But on the other hand he knew she ...
ELEANOR POPPELL
In those days you could identify a person's nationality by smell. Lying on her back with eyes closed...
JEFFREY EUGENIDES
A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor thi...
MARGARET D. NADAULD
But then I'm distracted by movement in the Forest, a glimpse of red at the edge of my vision. She's ...
CARRIE RYAN
My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started...
REGINA BRETT
Rosa is a woman that we met in the early 1990s in Peru. She was affected by the civil unrest in her ...
JUANITA FOX
The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only...
YASUNARI KAWABATA
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: / But I say unto...
BIBLE
She had been his patient for over 20 years. An elderly woman with severe arthritis, she had been the...
STEPHEN KLIEWER
To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth—I count that something of a...
HENRY MILLER
Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus cou...
FRANCINE RIVERS
she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surp...
JODI PICOULT
If a woman earned a dollar by scrubbing, her husband had a right to take the dollar and go and get d...
LUCY STONE
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not u...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
In the face of the seemingly insurmountable hurdle of Ms. Lewinsky's repeated denials that anyone ev...
CHARLES RUFF
Her tears fell abundantly--but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it mo...
JANE AUSTEN
I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by...
WILEY POST
She was disoriented. She was out and had to be helped to her corner, despite the fact that she was s...
MAUREEN SHEA
This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the ...
CARSON MCCULLERS
The beauty of her fairness has nothing to do with her character. A woman cannot be judged by her app...
ETC WANYANWU
Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had ...
MELANIE DICKERSON
A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet corne...
ROBERTSON DAVIES
It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of th...
ANTONIA FRASER
This woman was chronically sick and her family called us for help during the storm, but we couldn't ...
JIMMY WHITE
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and he...
OSCAR WILDE
During the dance of Giants, common man gets stomped on.
BEN OAK
During the struggle, he sexually battered her and he also threatened to kill her.
BARBARA JONES
He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize ...
JERZY KOSINKSI
Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave...
EMILY LLOYD-JONES
A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a ...
NINON DE LENCLOS
Love a woman, Not by her physical beauty And not the color of her skin, But love her what’s in her...
ALON CALINAO DY
Her gaze did not leave her burning groom, nor did her mind abandon the fact that he was not consumed...
ELIZABETH STERLING
No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had o...
ANN PATCHETT
She doesn't just rely on her athleticism now. That is the thing with very athletic players; they end...
MICK STATHAM
I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the h...
THOMAS HARDY
A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
H. H. MUNRO
Packing some heat there, aren’t you Officer?”
Jake looked down and yanked on the hem of hi...
KRISTEN CASEY
A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potent...
DONNA LYNN HOPE
This did not in any way alter her intention of accomplishing her mission; on the contrary; it seemed...
JANE BOWLES
Beck behaved himself, though it was really difficult, especially during the slow dances when they we...
JANA OLIVER
At night I told myself a story, wordless, inside my head, one I liked far better than those in my bo...
ALICE HOFFMAN
It's been a really hard 10 years for her. She really appreciates the love and the prayers and the su...
JOANNE DRAKE
Did she know, could she know what it meant to him when she turned to him, when she opened herself to...
J.D. ROBB
She saw how he was staring at it, the bright red hue beneath her bonnet. She could not bear to see t...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE
A man can love her woman, or he can be her husband.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA
...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any...
HENRY JAMES
Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her fa...
JENNIFER ANTKOWIAK
Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she...
MATT TOMERLIN
He had slept next to her for thirty-six years, and the mattress felt different without her weight, h...
NICOLE KRAUSS
When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would wri...
ROMAN PAYNE
She needed Jay to go with her. Because despite her bold words about doing it by herself, it was all ...
KIMBERLY DERTING
He wanted me to tell the world that [Elizabeth] is his wife, and he still loves her and knows that s...
LARRY LONG
Will, the boy who loved the same books she did, the same poetry she did, who made her laugh even whe...
CASSANDRA CLARE
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominanc...
BETTY FRIEDAN
The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled news...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her,...
MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER
she is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sittin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in...
NALINI SINGH
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it...
RUTH REICHL
My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with...
AMY CHUA
She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; ...
JUDITH MARTIN
She had to get a hold of herself. She had to run. Did she have a chance of making it out alive? Some...
MIMI JEAN PAMFILOFF
[He said he located her face in the stands by seeing her blonde hair.] I could see her smiling, ... ...
TEDY BRUSCHI
One girl e-mailed us and said she wanted to plan her wedding so she could have her honeymoon during ...
KATHLEEN COLE
Julia's fears of coming forward with the violence were based on anticipated as well as actual respon...
SUSAN WEITZMAN
We talked about the things she cared about in terms of Barton College and the good memories of times...
CAROLYN BROWN
Even in that short time he had seen that Anne had great power. She did not care if she quarreled wit...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she had fulfilled her nine months, if her womb...
COMPTON GAGE
She smiled and he abruptly looked away. Was it really necessary for her to smile? It was bad enough ...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - THE JOURNAL
Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a v...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
He still loved her—and every moment that he didn’t have her hurt him deeply. That was why he’d...
LAUREN KATE
Sheikh Bilal had taken
him aside the day before the wedding and spoken to him of marriage
...
ALAA AL ASWANY
And so these refined parents rejected their five-year-old girl to all kinds of torture. They beat he...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Her father protects ,her in childhood, her husband protects ,her in youth, and her sons protect ,her...
GURU NANAK
The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her a...
ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush ...
KATHLEEN THOMPSON NORRIS
She looked into the mirror, wiping the mascara that was running down her cheeks with her tears and s...
AKSHAY VASU
The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.
JOHN STEINBECK
Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as h...
PHILIPPA GREGORY
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the...
AYN RAND
He is struck by her overview of his situation. It is as if she has understood his life. He is taken ...
HILARY MANTEL
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerve...
R.A. SALVATORE
Day followed day, and night followed night, until Dany knew she could not endure a moment longer. Sh...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any t...
E. F. BENSON
He wanted to wake up every morning to her. Go to sleep with his body wrapped tightly around hers. He...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN
A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a ...
BARBARA GORDON
The Old Woman and the Physician An old woman having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician ...
AESOP
Before a Parisienne in lace, in the salon of some illustrious physician, a person of importance with...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

More Gabrielle Giffords

Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it er...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to som...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain differ...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important tha...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent cr...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some moveme...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not grea...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can,...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
I had planned to spend my 40s continuing my public service and starting a family. I thought that by ...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your com...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a s...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared ...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
As gun owners, my husband and I understand that the Second Amendment is most at risk when a criminal...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in ...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and sk...
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project ga...
GABRIELLE UNION
As a newly married person, as much as I would love for my husband to buy into the 'my way or the...
GABRIELLE UNION
A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab...
GABRIELLE UNION
I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had o...
GABRIELLE UNION
We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under...
GABRIELLE UNION
I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time...
GABRIELLE UNION
I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. The...
GABRIELLE UNION
You have to be resilient.
GABRIELLE UNION
I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When...
GABRIELLE UNION
There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
GABRIELLE UNION
Boys are so much drama.
GABRIELLE UNION
I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single,...
GABRIELLE UNION
Right now, I don't have the same urges as other women when they see a baby. When I see children,...
GABRIELLE UNION
When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashb...
GABRIELLE UNION
We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn't necessarily exist in...
GABRIELLE UNION
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they&#...
GABRIELLE UNION
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
GABRIELLE UNION
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
GABRIELLE ROY
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his j...
GABRIELLE ROY
My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay...
GABRIELLE ROY
I got my first guitar when I was 11. It was an electric, and I can remember just wanting to be Avril...
GABRIELLE APLIN
YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTub...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find eve...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I don't feel like a pop star. I like being able to live my life the same as my mates. I don'...
GABRIELLE APLIN
When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd...
GABRIELLE APLIN
Labels fund things and have resources for you to use. But just because you sign doesn't mean you...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I did...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music ...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do th...
GABRIELLE APLIN
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no o...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I'm quite annoying and can't imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.
GABRIELLE APLIN
When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the s...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I feel more comfortable in a place like Brighton - a town, with one centre, one bus station, one tra...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I'm really busy, but I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
GABRIELLE APLIN
I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing'...
GABRIELLE APLIN
I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
GABRIELLE APLIN
I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to ...
GABRIELLE ANWAR
I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's b...
GABRIELLE ANWAR
I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there'...
GABRIELLE ANWAR
I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone ...
GABRIELLE ANWAR
I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happine...
GABRIELLE ANWAR
I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful ...
GABRIELLE ANWAR
Writing only leads to more writing.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
Music is love in search of a word.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
Hope costs nothing
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and ju...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; maste...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls ...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But be...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would ...
GABRIELLE UNION
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
GABRIELLE UNION
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and sh...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one...
GABRIELLE REECE
It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very cl...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two p...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a perso...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit ...
GABRIELLE UNION
I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do wel...
GABRIELLE UNION
After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, L...
GABRIELLE UNION
You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it'...
GABRIELLE UNION
Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?"

She said, "I...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. T...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Don't save your best for when you think the material calls for it. Always bring your full potential ...
GABRIELLE UNION
Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like ...
GABRIELLE TOZER
I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
GABRIELLE UNION
Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around...
GABRIELLE REECE
Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
We don't feel at ease here: we are surrounded by too much beauty
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
Real poverty is lack of books
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
Testosterone is the hormone that affects a woman's libido and sexual satisfaction. In women with men...
GABRIELLE LICHTERMAN
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between wome...
GABRIELLE UNION
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we cal...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do...
GABRIELLE UNION
I don't understand thesis statements. I do realize they are a necessary part of essays and papers du...
GABRIELLE GLINSKI
Dance is just song in a physical form.
GABRIELLE GLINSKI
Life writes itself as it pleases, and doesn't care if it gets off topic or has an interesting beginn...
GABRIELLE GLINSKI
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like th...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
GABRIELLE UNION
And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomeve...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.
GABRIELLE ROY
The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable.
GABRIELLE ROY
Maybe my story's only waiting for an honest person to pick up the book.
GABRIELLE GLINSKI
You know this girl.
Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness i...
GABRIELLE WILLIAMS
Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read....
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by on...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Turn the page, your heroine is still there, breathe, relax, life is beautiful: you're in a book!
GABRIELLE DUBOIS
If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been toget...
GABRIELLE REECE
I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people...
GABRIELLE UNION
You think this is something that happens to other people, this is what you read about.
GABRIELLE UNION
Hour-longs are like doing movies that never end, ... City of Angels.
GABRIELLE UNION
The X-Files.
GABRIELLE UNION
My summer got cut a little short,
GABRIELLE UNION
I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops be...
GABRIELLE UNION
The second man I meet is Andrew, and he has dirty fingernails so I can't notice if he is nice or not...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a ...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better wit...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Truffles must come to the table in their own stock [and] as you break open this jewel sprung from a ...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
How do you like them? like a pear, a lemon, a la Montgolfier, half an apple, or a cantaloupe? Go and...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
It turns out that an adult muscle cell's capacity to repair damaged muscle is directly related to wh...
GABRIELLE KARDON
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the ...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are a...
GABRIELLE UNION
My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their re...
GABRIELLE APLIN
No happiness in the writer, no happiness in the reader.
GABRIELLE DUBOIS
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
His heart is too full, and no words to release it.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, g...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
GABRIELLE DUBOIS
They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
It hit me like a ton of bricks,
GABRIELLE MURPHY
Why do we do so few when we can do so much?
GABRIELLE DUBOIS
The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely ...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
There are no ordinary cats.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
I love nudity. I'm always nude. When I was a little girl my mother would always have to dress me bec...
GABRIELLE RICHENS
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly t...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
GABRIELLE UNION
In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still op...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books h...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Tr...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward you...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
Miracle Message #30: If my environment dictates my mood, then my life will feel like a roller coaste...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
I choose to reinterpret my fears with a more loving perspective. #MiraclesNow
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
Forgiveness tears down the ego’s walls of separation and reunites us as one. The anger and fear of...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
Miracle Message #16: “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” — Dr. ...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
I’ve learned that fear is simply an illusion based on past experiences that we project into the pr...
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN
A place is not really a place without a bookstore.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy....
GABRIELLE UNION
I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to t...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resembl...
GABRIELLE HAMILTON
I am often slow in catching up to the times, but even so, I still cannot even grip this idea: With n...
GABRIELLE HAMILTON
Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't w...
GABRIELLE UNION
You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each nig...
GABRIELLE UNION
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
Give me a dozen such heartbreaks, if that would help me lose a couple of pounds
SIDONIE GABRIELLE
In this world, to be overly literal is a profound weakness.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people a...
GABRIELLE REECE
You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.
GABRIELLE REECE
Writing a main character is very important to me. Because each time I create one, it feels like anot...
B.A. GABRIELLE
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling....
GABRIELLE REECE
I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are c...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an ...
GABRIELLE UNION
We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn'...
GABRIELLE UNION
Because you believed
In yourself
Your tiny self

Because you knew
There is...
GABRIELLE PRENDERGAST
Stay calm and aggressive.
GABRIELLE REECE
I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get ...
GABRIELLE REECE
You have to develop a very thick skin.
GABRIELLE UNION
I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really...
GABRIELLE UNION
Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.
GABRIELLE DUBOIS
My heart was a little bit broken, but I still had to go to school. I buttoned my dress shirt over it...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
That's because a woman's hormones have a profound effect on everything that impacts her wedding - he...
GABRIELLE LICHTERMAN
The morning is when a man's testosterone peaks in his 24-hour hormone cycle. And Day 13 is when test...
GABRIELLE LICHTERMAN
Either way, we view this as a positive, as this business will either be turned around or disposed of...
GABRIELLE KIVITZ
We are encouraged by the better-than-expected (comparable-store sales) ... but we note that high pro...
GABRIELLE KIVITZ
There's obviously a lot of opportunity in Asia. It helps their global presence, but is not going to ...
GABRIELLE KIVITZ
It's a smart decision to franchise if you want to grow a brand globally. It's especially hard for an...
GABRIELLE KIVITZ
It turns out that an adult muscle cell's capacity to repair damaged muscle is directly related to wh...
GABRIELLE KARDON