The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautifu... MICHELLE OBAMA She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser... J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no... J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ... J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif... J.D. SALINGER The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON She was my first Miss Oshkosh and we were friends from the start. I always say these young women are... GERT SCHULTZ My daughters said don't worry because we are OK. But I just wanted to get something for them. GRACE LEUNG Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again. MARK TWAIN Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS That cat was a spy. You had to take a pot shot at it. It was a very clever German midget dres... J.D. SALINGER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for... JADE HAJJ Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Da... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion fo... JONATHAN EDWARDS I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-scho... DOMINIQUE MOCEANU I believe that all men and women will be saved. PAT BUCKLEY Even if you aren't independent or career wise, at least show that you have a passion for life and an... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I come across too much material on "how to make a man want you", "how to make a man commit", "how to... C. JOYBELL C. CoverGirl's Girls CAN movement is perfectly aligned with my passion for helping young women over... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN 32. Before you criticize your parents for their failures and mistakes, ask yourself: “Will I reall... JAMES C. DOBSON History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the st... KURT VON HAMMERSTEIN-EQUORD I have more enemies than I deserve," I said. "I am fighting a losing battle, me against the world. T... FELIX GILMAN I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain... ROXANE GAY We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the k... A. S. BYATT I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute PINK Hold onto one thought: You're not important. You're not anything. Some day the load we're carrying w... RAY BRADBURY Adrian laughed just then, a weird kind of laugh that made my skin crawl. "Young girls? Young ... RICHELLE MEAD Selfish people look for success and are in great majority with good bonhomie, but others who crave f... ANUJ SOMANY Abe Ribicoff believes in that American dream. I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your son... ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute. PINK Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me... Otherwis... MARYUM AHSAM Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ... C. JOYBELL C. I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother h... CHANTAL AKERMAN My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opp... JOYCE CAROL OATES Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and mus... BETTY BUCKLEY In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words. PAT BUCKLEY No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or wh... GERMANY KENT I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because... KAMERON HURLEY The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!! BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age,... JAMES COSTOS The nature of living and loving is the act of reciprocity. As women, we are told that to be the gues... TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS I often must sacrifice my own needs and desires for the purpose of giving my children what they need... SALLY CLARKSON It's true we all build imaginary prisons for ourselves. Believe that we are trapped behind the invis... THOMAS LLOYD QUALLS I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stabl... SANDRA TSING LOH My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Han... CLAIRE DANES Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER It was really surreal. I had some family members there. I felt like I got the monkey off my back and... ALAINA HARTMAN It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you ... C. JOYBELL C. Mothers show their daughters how to become strong, fathers make them RAFIA SHUJAAT You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY Feminism is not only for women It's something everyone can participate in, and evolve together, ... ANI DIFRANCO The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of ... ADRIENNE RICH I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe ... SHERYL SANDBERG I call [fourth-wave feminism] fainting–couch feminism, a la the delicate Victorian ladies who retr... CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering ... DREW BARRYMORE I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care. KINKY FRIEDMAN What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political poi... MICHELLE PHAN I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a dieha... JENNA DEWAN The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha... STEPHEN R. COVEY I have won many trophies in my time, but nothing will ever top helping win the battle for peace in m... DIDIER DROGBA I am all the daughters of my father's house,And all the brothers too. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having sur... LOUISE ERDRICH Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?' I still think that's the bravest thing I'... CHINA MIéVILLE For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true;
And low at the shrines where my b... DONALD MARQUIS (D.R.P. MARQUIS) ("DON MARQUIS") The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter. ANITA DIAMANT wo chhod dete hain jb hm tnha hote hain
wo paas hote hain jb mere paas hazaro hopte hain. SONYY TYAGI You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They NEIL GAIMAN I don't often miss (school) for races, but I do have to train around homework and my gifted classes. CHRISTIAN PARRETT My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with t... NYLE DIMARCO Khalid would break every bone in your body for what you've done. RENEE AHDIEH He reminds me a lot of myself when I was young, ... Chris has a passion for cars and I think he'll f... FUNKMASTER FLEX Women in my country take their rights for granted and completely dissociate themselves from the wome... CHERYL BENARD QUOTING LORRIE A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. B... SARAH RUHL I'm a man with many defects. I love. I sing. I dream. I was born in the poor countryside. I was ... HUGO CHAVEZ In the morning, I never cleanse. I just splash my face with water and pat it dry. I honestly think t... THANDIE NEWTON There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The firs... JESSAMYN WEST My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or w... CARRIE-ANNE MOSS I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazo... ROBERT POWELL its the passion in my heart that makes me crazy
its the passion in my learning that makes me intelli... LARISSA CONSOLAGIO In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are pavin... KIRSTEN DUNST Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic abou... JACK LAYTON This book gave me back the passionate optimism of my youth. This young generation of women will have... ISABEL ALLENDE I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... MARA WILSON I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anti... LUCA GUADAGNINO Of course he won my heart. Many children did. I often thought that I should have liked children of m... JEAN PLAIDY What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless ... FAHMIDA RIAZ I learned there were lots of realities in the world. HARUKI MURAKAMI oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- ... BARBARA BLATNER
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It's not about nutrients and calories... LOUISE FRESCO We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn'... LOUISE MENSCH The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countr... LOUISE SLAUGHTER My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided ... LOUISE NURDING Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't ... LOUISE NURDING It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. LOUISE MAY To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...t... LOUISE ERDRICH She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief bec... LOUISE PENNY Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w... LOUISE ERDRICH Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer. 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LOUISE BROOKS I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange bea... LOUISE BOGAN They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho... LOUISE ERDRICH I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. LOUISE NEVELSON Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble. LOUISE BOGAN I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir... MARIE LOUISE And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refuse... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I ca... LOUISE MENSCH My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there... LOUISE ERDRICH I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. ... LOUISE JAMESON This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the mol... LOUISE SLAUGHTER Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity. LOUISE BOGAN Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical a... LOUISE HART The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! LOUISE HART Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming i... LOUISE FRESCO Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing ... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you'r... LOUISE NURDING My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In ord... LOUISE ERDRICH For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a b... LOUISE SLAUGHTER Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said. LOUISE ERDRICH Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fea... LOUISE BOURGEOIS To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte... LOUISE PENNY I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers. LOUISE NURDING Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's n... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I ha... LOUISE POST To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened t... LOUISE PENNY When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilien... LOUISE ERDRICH Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them ... LOUISE PENNY If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler. LOUISE FITZHUGH As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a... LOUISE NURDING Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-a... LOUISE PENNY Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may no... LOUISE SLAUGHTER Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government,... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedra... LOUISE NURDING My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad cas... LOUISE NURDING I think all great innovations are built on rejections. LOUISE NEVELSON As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to ... LOUISE GLüCK Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude wi... LOUISE ERDRICH Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude... LOUISE ERDRICH Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence... LOUISE ERDRICH To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having sur... LOUISE ERDRICH For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over a... LOUISE ERDRICH To fly from one tree to another, the raven hangs itself, hawklike, on the air. I hang myself that sa... LOUISE ERDRICH ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as h umbel as the spider's, what is bea... LOUISE ERDRICH The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history. LOUISE ERDRICH Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the ... LOUISE ERDRICH Tu dois aimer. Tu dois ressentir. C'est la raison pour laquelle tu es ici sur terre. Tu es ici pour ... LOUISE ERDRICH When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know peop... LOUISE ERDRICH And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let y... LOUISE ERDRICH ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beau... LOUISE ERDRICH Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were co... LOUISE ERDRICH In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our m... LOUISE ERDRICH When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain. LOUISE PENNY Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures som... LOUISE FRESCO I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your o... LOUISE MENSCH She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or wh... LOUISE FLETCHER Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the ot... LOUISE ERDRICH I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don’t have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I’ll... LOUISE RENNISON In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. LOUISE BROOKS Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and acad... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I write first drafts by hand. Never do I open an umbrella inside the house. I don't predict wins... LOUISE ERDRICH I know people who've had a nose job, and they've walked out feeling a million dollars, and t... LOUISE NURDING Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional. LOUISE BOURGEOIS The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movement... LOUISE BROOKS Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say... LOUISE MENSCH I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. LOUISE NEVELSON Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. LOUISE ERDRICH Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood. LOUISE BEAL There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions. LOUISE ERDRICH I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for... LOUISE LEAKEY It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. LOUISE MAY A whisper can be stronger, as an atom is stronger, than a whole mountain. LOUISE NEVELSON We know from worldwide experience that very often when you go beyond the numbers you uncover pattern... LOUISE ARBOUR It is not appropriate to say: 'We are doing this our own way', LOUISE ARBOUR Do I believe that people indicted by this tribunal will be tried? If I didn't believe that, I wouldn... LOUISE ARBOUR The present indictment is based entirely on crimes committed since the beginning of 1999 in Kosovo. LOUISE ARBOUR I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, ... LOUISE NURDING There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a f... LOUISE BROOKS I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone. LOUISE BOURGEOIS We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've see... LOUISE SLAUGHTER A good novel is a good novel, pointe finale. And I think what I'm writing is exactly that. LOUISE PENNY Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded ser... LOUISE SLAUGHTER I've always been a bad flyer, but I don't let it get in the way of travelling. I love steppi... LOUISE NURDING We spoke no German, nor ate any German foods. LOUISE HALL They can certainly expect to be very impressed with the technical aspects of the show, fooled and le... LOUISE JAMESON Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The ar... LOUISE BOGAN We are not resting our case on simply the knowledge of superiors of the acts of their subordinates, ... LOUISE ARBOUR Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they s... LOUISE PENNY Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers. LOUISE RENNISON What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one... LOUISE LEAKEY Live television drama was like live theater, because you moved without thinking about the camera. It... LOUISE FLETCHER There is much to love, and that love is what we are left with. When the bombs stop dropping, and the... LOUISE MURPHY Father never approved of my toys Saw them as child's playthings I was a child T... T.P. LOUISE Just remember, honey, you only have one heart. LOUISE BAGSHAWE This isn't goodbye. It's "see you later". LOUISE BAGSHAWE Female friendships that work are relationships in which women help each other belong to themselves. LOUISE BERNIKOW The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes. LOUISE ERDRICH To serve someone a citation, you have to do it in person. If it?s an absentee landlord, it?s cost pr... LOUISE DIX I've always loved Helena Christensen's style because she looks casual and comfortable, while... LOUISE NURDING ...panic is a synonym for being; in its delays, in its swerving and rushing syntax, its frantic list... LOUISE GLüCK You must create your own world. I'm responsible for my world. LOUISE NEVELSON I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. LOUISE NEVELSON A woman may not hit a ball stronger than a man, but it is different. I prize that difference. LOUISE NEVELSON I never feel age ... If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. LOUISE NEVELSON It was enough just to sit there without words. LOUISE ERDRICH In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our m... LOUISE ERDRICH They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho... LOUISE ERDRICH Hunger steals the memory LOUISE ERDRICH Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. LOUISE ERDRICH I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the wh... LOUISE BROOKS The art of one period cannot be approached through the attitudes (emotional or intellectual) of anot... LOUISE BOGAN One thing I wish I'd done differently in my career is insist on having friends or family on tour... LOUISE NURDING Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, ... LOUISE LEAKEY Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the pre... LOUISE GLUCK The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our
lives. LOUISE HAY I don't know why they waited to the last minute to leave Paris. But they had amazing foresight and l... LOUISE BORDEN Rules meant order. Without them they’d be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parki... LOUISE PENNY Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. LOUISE BROOKS Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. LOUISE ERDRICH Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. LOUISE ERDRICH No man should be shamefaced through his work, to give back to the world
a portion of its lost heart. LOUISE BOGAN It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume. LOUISE ARBOUR until the accused are in custody. LOUISE ARBOUR Two phenomena, in my view, are particularly disturbing: One is the prevalence of the use of torture ... LOUISE ARBOUR I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, a... LOUISE ARBOUR The Chinese authorities indicated that they want to ratify the covenant as early as possible. LOUISE ARBOUR Let us be clear, the proposal before the General Assembly is the fruit of compromise. It cannot be a... LOUISE ARBOUR We continue to demand that the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia get immedia... LOUISE ARBOUR China has declared its commitment to human rights and has raised expectations for the country to mat... LOUISE ARBOUR China's rapid economic g rowth has resulted in tremendous progress in reducing poverty and improving... LOUISE ARBOUR There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations fo... LOUISE ARBOUR I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on... LOUISE NEVELSON Some people need a slap,
in the face,
with a shovel! LOUISE TRENT My father could out-weather anybody. Like people anywhere, there were times when it was the only top... LOUISE ERDRICH I don't have anyone curbing my instincts, doing anything destructive to my self opinion. LOUISE POST …believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn’t. LOUISE PENNY Living things don't all require light in the same degree. Some of us make our own light: a... LOUISE GLüCK Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving gr... LOUISE ERDRICH Wherever the family was, these two dogs, both six-year-old shepherd mixes, took up their posts at th... LOUISE ERDRICH And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't... LOUISE RENNISON Bad smells made her angry, they were a personal affront. LOUISE ERDRICH Ole Golly: You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep m... LOUISE FITZHUGH It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockef... LOUISE NEVELSON What we start with is a conviction to fulfill our being. Horses, trees fulfill themselves. Why shoul... LOUISE NEVELSON