The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countr...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refuse...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the mol...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a b...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's n...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER 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 Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and acad...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER We have record high temperatures and record high energy prices across the country, and we've see...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded ser...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I think the fact they they're just practically denuding the northeast preys on a lot of minds and we...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Exxon-Mobil alone, one oil company, brought in more than $7.6 billion dollars in profits over the la...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER The criminal indictment of Tom DeLay is the first chink in the armor of corruption that has so cloud...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER This bill would create the first federal law that would recognize a fertilized egg as a victim of a ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER We need bipartisan support. We believe we can get it and we will get it.
LOUISE SLAUGHTER If they are opposed to abortion, they should be for preventing unintended pregnancies.
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I am disturbed that the identification and clothing of our public officials is so easily reproduced.
LOUISE SLAUGHTER We realize they've got other customers. They've got China. They've got India,” Slaughter conti...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER While other industries have suffered, the nonprofit arts world continues to build in strength while ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men,...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring co...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER This deal would trigger the airline consolidation we have feared in the wake of a proposed United-US...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Proponents of this bill are not just chipping away at the right to choose, they are taking a jackham...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER We realize they've got other customers. They've got China. They've got India,” Slaughter continued...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situati...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime wr...
KARIN SLAUGHTER When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining to...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
KARIN SLAUGHTER As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
KARIN SLAUGHTER A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in colleg...
KARIN SLAUGHTER As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older s...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.
KARIN SLAUGHTER If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and tha...
KARIN SLAUGHTER It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone bei...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I think being a woman and writing frankly about violence has gotten me some attention, and as someon...
KARIN SLAUGHTER The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether i...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
KARIN SLAUGHTER We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, s...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I love twins stories.
KARIN SLAUGHTER Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be do...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transfo...
KARIN SLAUGHTER My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to tal...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.
KARIN SLAUGHTER I think some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really li...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, a...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
KARIN SLAUGHTER If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourse...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampi...
KARIN SLAUGHTER 'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You The...
KARIN SLAUGHTER To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.
ENOS SLAUGHTER The ones that are not on yet are probably the ones that are going to require more time and attention...
BOB SLAUGHTER It looks bad. They're preparing for the worst.
BOB SLAUGHTER These areas must follow the example of Louisiana and many other states in sharing these energy resou...
BOB SLAUGHTER It's too late now, but Congress has consistently failed to sequence regulatory requirements in a res...
BOB SLAUGHTER Federal policies must fully consider the impact of environmental regulations on fuel supply.
BOB SLAUGHTER This year presents the refining industry with several significant challenges. But we are experts at ...
BOB SLAUGHTER We all want cleaner fuels, but we have to be sure we can deliver on our promises. And we're not sure...
BOB SLAUGHTER The two worst-case scenarios for the impact on the refining industry would be what happened with Kat...
BOB SLAUGHTER The damage left in Katrina's wake made the already troubling supply and price situation significantl...
BOB SLAUGHTER The most effective means of achieving this goal is continued reliance on market mechanisms, not pric...
BOB SLAUGHTER I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmit...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind...
KARIN SLAUGHTER This was a good start to the week. Wouldn't it have been terrible to come off this game 0-1 [in dist...
JIM SLAUGHTER We don't want to get too cocky because we know we can get beat by anyone. We're just chilling, doing...
MICHAEL SLAUGHTER The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER The city has done a good job of being a little bit more on top of things. The county has fallen behi...
MICHAEL SLAUGHTER Oh, she was my baby. There ain't no doubt about that. She was Daddy's baby 100 percent.
MICHAEL SLAUGHTER Dublin is a hard team. We knew we would have our hands full.
MICHAEL SLAUGHTER As voters and taxpayers, we must demand that our local governments properly prioritize libraries. As...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.
KARIN SLAUGHTER The relationship between the San Francisco Giants and the Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation da...
STACI SLAUGHTER Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from...
KARIN SLAUGHTER What we really tried to do is just simplify everything, both in the field club area and on the prome...
STACI SLAUGHTER They hear what he has to deal with on the court. And they see how he succeeds in spite of it, and it...
TYRONE SLAUGHTER I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read ev...
KARIN SLAUGHTER You're going to have to be careful that you're not upsetting a plan that already is in the last stag...
BOB SLAUGHTER Oh, I'm completely OCD about neatness.
KARIN SLAUGHTER It's potentially a bigger threat than Katrina because there is more refining capacity in the Houston...
BOB SLAUGHTER It's potentially a bigger threat than Katrina because there is more refining capacity in the Houston...
BOB SLAUGHTER It's potentially a bigger threat than Katrina because there is more refining capacity in the Houston...
BOB SLAUGHTER If there's significant damage done in the Gulf, there's going to be a supply impact on gasoline, die...
BOB SLAUGHTER What's happened can be explained by the higher cost of crude oil, the difficulties in building new r...
BOB SLAUGHTER She's just come undone," her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old coll...
KARIN SLAUGHTER She spent the next hour dividing her time between the phone and the computer; scaring the ever-lovin...
KARIN SLAUGHTER He's morbidly obese. He's unusually bloated. There are needle marks on his abdomen and thighs that i...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - peo...
KARIN SLAUGHTER If you wanted to know shit about a woman, all you had to do was ask the woman who was pretending to ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER So I say keep yelling and hustling every minute you're in uniform.
ENOS SLAUGHTER Visual storytelling is at once immediate and subversive.
KARIN SLAUGHTER The Villages Relay for Life is one of the bigger relays. It speaks volumes of The Villages residents...
EMMY SLAUGHTER I've been so amazed by the participation thus far from the residents. The response has been astoundi...
EMMY SLAUGHTER With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leave...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Anyone who's been to high school with teenage girls knows how horrible girls can be.
KARIN SLAUGHTER Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some ba...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
KARIN SLAUGHTER Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER The patent office is overwhelmed because they don't have enough staff.
DARLENE SLAUGHTER This leads us to believe that we're not experiencing a real crisis of innovation but rather an enorm...
DARLENE SLAUGHTER My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
KARIN SLAUGHTER As a team player and a fullback, a great play for me is a great block to spring a run. It was hard a...
JAKE SLAUGHTER I just wanted to come out and have fun with the kids, and it's a chance to be a kid yourself again. ...
JAKE SLAUGHTER I love blocking and I love being physical. I don't need touches to get glory.
JAKE SLAUGHTER A carry wouldn't be bad, but I have a better chance of getting passed to.
JAKE SLAUGHTER I love making people laugh. I'm not scared to do much of anything. It's definitely physical comedy w...
JAKE SLAUGHTER Sometimes, even if you know the answer, you've got to let the other person take a shot. If they feel...
KARIN SLAUGHTER This feels so great. I've been waiting for this my whole life, to be in this situation. I'm so happy...
MARCUS SLAUGHTER I like the championship one better.
MARCUS SLAUGHTER I'm fine. I just tweaked it. It's nothing to worry about. It's nothing serious. I just have to ice i...
MARCUS SLAUGHTER We finally got everyone in. It's the first step for us.
MARCUS SLAUGHTER There were several major corporate deals done over the last quarter - those should generate activity...
LARRY SLAUGHTER I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.
ENOS SLAUGHTER From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.
ENOS SLAUGHTER I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.
ENOS SLAUGHTER Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighb...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same smal...
KARIN SLAUGHTER My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters spea...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I wou...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Women know how to scare other women.
KARIN SLAUGHTER There aren't many people in the world who can say that they are doing the job they've wanted...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeho...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I always want to make sure the book I'm writing is the best book I can deliver.
KARIN SLAUGHTER Marriage. That’s what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They c...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Optimism is a sliver of glass in your heart.
KARIN SLAUGHTER Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ...
LOUISE BROWN Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. 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 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.
LOUISE GLüCK Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude...
LOUISE ERDRICH Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applyi...
LOUISE LABé Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it bre...
LOUISE SUGGS Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
LOUISE DRISCOLL But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
LOUISE BOGAN Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their ...
LOUISE BOGAN The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live i...
LOUISE BERNIKOW The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert him...
LOUISE BOGAN Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
LOUISE BEAL If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
LOUISE BROWN Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else t...
LOUISE BOGAN Every time I say sure when I mean no, every time I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, ever...
LOUISE BERNIKOW People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
LOUISE HAY What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
LOUISE NEVELSON Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them th...
LOUISE TALMA I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of wo...
LOUISE NEVELSON Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
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 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 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 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 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 The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and ret...
LOUISE BROWN I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.
LOUISE NURDING 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 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 Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children....
LOUISE BROWN 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