Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.
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Related Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr... JIM MORRISON Everyone who could have got away did. Its really upsetting to see. The only people left are the ones... IAN WILLIAMSON This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman a... CINDY SHERMAN I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's ... HENRY ROLLINS Women are angry if other women think too little of their lovers, and furious if they think too much. MINNA ANTRIM Nobody who says as little as he does is as simple as you'd think. It takes a lot to not say a lot, b... CECELIA AHERN Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them... KARL BARTH It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does h... MARLO THOMAS [Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and... NANCY E. TURNER If it's true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do--and research prov... ELIZABETH PERLE MCKENNA Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore. ALEX HAMILTON Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with ... KARL BARTH If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling c... OLIVIA CULPO As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me. STEPHEN CHBOSKY As a community, I think we are still progressing. I think if each one does their part as a way of li... CAROLYN MCCRAY It is really sad because he lives about 40 minutes away and I don't get to see him very much. He pla... KAYLA WRIGHT Sometimes we have to let go someone we love, not because we dont care about them anymore, because we... THE QUIET GIRL The consequences that cause people to do their best every day occur every day. Delayed rewards are f... AUBREY DANIELS ...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a d... TIMOTHY J. KELLER Age is just a number. Being a grown up can disconnect you from common sense and true happiness. Grow... NERISSA IRVING Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL I thought it was an honor that fellow players looked at me that way. I don't think I really put too ... CHAD CAMPBELL She's thinking about it way too much. It's nice to be able to win games without her, and it really f... LISA BLUDER I really believe that we need a new secretary of defense because Secretary Rumsfeld carries way too ... CHARLES SWANNACK A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that ... WILL FERRELL I really don't have much respect for the people who live their lives motivated by an exit strate... ANDY GROVE Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we'll not know if theyre right until the very e... LILY COLLINS I believe we will have better government when men and women discuss public issues together and make ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait f... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I need you here with me we look for our love but we dont find it im searching and searching, I reall... SELENA GóMEZ As politicians know all too well, even a Government that does not represent the wishes of a people c... ELISABETH HOEMBERG I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do.... JENNIFER CHIAVERINI theyre missing whole streets. SAM WRIGHT I just put my head down as soon as I hit that blue line and shot it, and luckily I picked the far si... TIM CROWDER You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much abo... JHUMPA LAHIRI With our matches it's too close to call, it could really go either way. And I'm just happy that I ca... BRYAN ORTENZIO I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much a... HEDY LAMARR Romania has a distinctive smell on its own, ... Driving to set stunk and then getting to set stunk e... COLE HAUSER Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I’m not a licensed therapis... GILLIAN FLYNN I don't do any microdermabrasion or any type of injections in my skin because I think that's... MELANIA TRUMP I’m strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatur... KRISTA TIPPETT I think one of the problems in this country is that too many people are screwing things up, committi... GEORGE CARLIN 32. Before you criticize your parents for their failures and mistakes, ask yourself: “Will I reall... JAMES C. DOBSON In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and conn... BELL HOOKS I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I t... JEFF LINDSAY People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life. SUNDAY ADELAJA There's very, very little that this state legislature does that can't wait a couple of days. I don't... BARRY KAUFFMAN I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, becaus... JACK ANTONOFF That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel t... KURT COBAIN let’s be honest: women are still only really valued for two things—their looks and their role as... PAULA HAWKINS Women were glad when he came into their lives. It was not boasting. Women smiled for him; even when ... ROBERT JORDAN The problem is that too many adults think their kids' lives are simple, or they try to make thei... SHERMAN ALEXIE I think, too often, kids are not exposed to the environment, where there is wide-open land, fresh st... GREG EGNOR it doesnt matter how slow you go, as long as you dont stop ELIN Why is Kris Jenner a powerhouse? Because some part of us confuses fame and infamy, too. If she reall... KOREN ZAILCKAS It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. ... G.K. CHESTERTON What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more ab... BRENT WEEKS Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo... CHARLOTTE BRONTE Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had... CHRISTINA ENGELA Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves gi... JAMES E. FAUST Sometimes we listen to too many commentators about things that don't affect their lives because they... STEVIE WONDER As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital... JODI PICOULT Much of the ill-tempered railing against women that has characterized the popular writing of the las... MARGARET MEAD If your handwriting is barely legible, it makes them think that you are not really an organized pers... ADAM LEVINSON It was a sad feeling. I wasn't thinking about it too much, but it is sad. This is a great place to p... ASHLEY BAKER I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women ... HALLE BERRY Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: theyre only animals. THEODOR ADORNO Too often, a man lives as if he will never die. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Many women think that if they put out too quickly, their partner won't respect them. This is not the... NEIL STRAUSS Getting in the zone doesn't happen nearly as often as people like to think it does. But whether you'... AYNSLEY SMITH Getting in the zone doesn't happen nearly as often as people like to think it does. But whether you'... AYNSLEY M. SMITH Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suff... JAMES ARTHUR [Parents] think their kids can dress themselves and they can feed themselves and they can let themse... LINDA PERLSTEIN Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we... SUSAN ERTZ Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we... EPICURUS become as much a part of their books as do the readers, and they escape into the worlds they have cr... ROBERT VAUGHAN It will be really big for us to know the ropes. We know the practice facilities and we know what's g... DAVID THOMAS Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pat... JIMMY IOVINE I loved the Sunday funnies, and then, as I got a little bit older, I think my dad recognized that it... DANA PERINO 'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in e... JORDIN SPARKS The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women do... JEAN PAUL GAULTIER Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. CARLOTTA MONTEREY O'NEILL Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really. AGNES SLIGH TURNBULL Yeah. If I looked as good as Jane, I would, too! LILY TOMLIN I really think that we should postpone this. RON JONES As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, ... OSAMU DAZAI If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own commun... ALEX STEFFEN If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to b... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER I think there's more support today. I think there's better understanding today. And there's a better... ANITA HILL Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN ...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... ... JEAN-FRANçOIS LYOTARD In their minds, they still had forever. But we knew better. Forever was something we all took for gr... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Just as it is known That an image of one's face is seen Depending on a mirror But doe... NāGāRJUNA I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people ... KAZUO ISHIGURO Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's wher... KATE DEL CASTILLO I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-... TATIANA MASLANY
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I did this Super-8 film at art school called 'Tissues,' this black comedy about a family who... JANE CAMPION But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. ... JANE CAMPION I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing... JANE CAMPION There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after a... JANE CAMPION If you read Keats's poems, they're often full of doubts and anxieties. They can be quite tou... JANE CAMPION When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story ... JANE CAMPION I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, bu... JANE CAMPION I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave bi... JANE CAMPION I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I n... JANE CAMPION It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love S... JANE CAMPION Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives... JANE CAMPION I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more... JANE CAMPION If you start with a good idea, you can encapsulate it in a phrase and explain it. I like high-concep... JANE CAMPION Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was rea... JANE CAMPION I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work... JANE CAMPION This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money min... JANE CAMPION I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's... JANE CAMPION I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organi... JANE CAMPION I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here... JANE CAMPION There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews n... JANE CAMPION My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as p... JANE CAMPION I had this spooky psychological thing about 'The Piano' before it began, which was how every... JANE CAMPION A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story... JANE CAMPION Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built ar... JANE CAMPION What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not let... JANE CAMPION Actual violence has no attraction for me at all. JANE CAMPION To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision. JANE CAMPION Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore. THOMAS CAMPION There is a garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that ... THOMAS CAMPION The Summer hath his joys, / And Winter his delights. / Though Love and all his pleasures are but toy... THOMAS CAMPION When thou must home to shades of underground, / And there arrived, a new admirèd guest, / The beaut... THOMAS CAMPION Rose-cheeked Laura, come; / Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty's / Silent music, either other/ Sweet... THOMAS CAMPION Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. THOMAS CAMPION The man of life upright,/ Whose guiltless heart is free/ From all dishonest deeds/ Or thought of van... THOMAS CAMPION Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die. THOMAS CAMPION Follow your saint, follow with accents sweet; / Haste you, sad notes, fall at her flying feet. THOMAS CAMPION If he had given away anything else, he would have been charged with indecent exposure. EDMUND CAMPION His original thought was to walk off. But the medical folks pointed out, if he walked, that could co... ED CAMPION It's not a sense of urgency. ED CAMPION The thinking is that something is binding them -- a stiff cable or maybe a piece of insulation -- an... ED CAMPION You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to g... JANE KRAKOWSKI You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebr... JANE FONDA Every savage can dance. JANE AUSTEN I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don... JANE PAULEY To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. JANE AUSTEN At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine. JANE SEYMOUR Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of wome... JANE ADDAMS There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the di... 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JANE MCGONIGAL Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings. JANE AUSTEN Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to ... JANE FONDA Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want ... JANE ELLIOT I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, wi... JANE AUSTEN My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't re... JANE HADDAM The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just... JANE KRAKOWSKI I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her... JANE LINDSKOLD After a day of watching the two-legs interact from within their midst, she was certain that they cou... JANE LINDSKOLD The main reason why historians have skated over the relationship of Victorian PMs with the press is ... JANE RIDLEY I had a baby at 19 and was a grandmother by 39. Now, my children lend me their children to take them... JANE BIRKIN The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating t... JANE SMILEY A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame. JANE PAULEY It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and... JANE POYNTER When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st... JANE BIRKIN Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o... JANE FONDA I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I... JANE GREEN Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple... JANE YOLEN Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea... JANE GREEN Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a... JANE MAYER I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ... JANE GOODALL I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ... JANE CURTIN Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any... JANE GOODSELL I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line... JANE ELLIOT I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve... JANE BADLER No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 ... JANE PAULEY There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings.... JANE LINDSKOLD I loved 'Boogie Nights.' 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I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ... JANE LEVY You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. JANE FONDA You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor... JANE GOLDMAN Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha... JANE ASHER What strange creatures brothers are! JANE AUSTEN ...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN [I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN Angry people are not always wise. JANE AUSTEN I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But... JANE AUSTEN The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ... JANE AUSTEN Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ... JANE AUSTEN Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborh... JANE JACOBS A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a mo... JANE AUSTEN What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. JANE GOODALL I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ... JANE AUSTEN Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how. JANE AUSTEN Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces... JANE AUSTEN I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, ... JANE AUSTEN Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my f... JANE AUSTEN We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked... JANE AUSTEN There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison JANE AUSTEN I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. JANE AUSTEN To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect JANE AUSTEN There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour... JANE AUSTEN I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N... JANE AUSTEN Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection. JANE AUSTEN I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is to... JANE AUSTEN There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, whic... JANE AUSTEN Somewhere a bird sang, its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the still air...I think it's a ... 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JANE AUSTEN To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at la... JANE AUSTEN Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. JANE SMILEY Is not general incivility the very essence of love? JANE AUSTEN The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really... JANE AUSTEN In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to te... JANE AUSTEN There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving peop... JANE AUSTEN To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plai... JANE AUSTEN Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last ... JANE AUSTEN ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. JANE AUSTEN You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. JANE AUSTEN To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th... JANE HARRISON Men are creatures with eight hands. JANE MANSFIELD It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. JANE AUSTEN Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. JANE AUSTEN A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. JANE AUSTEN Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. JANE AUSTEN Telling lies and showing off to get attention are the mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to m... JANE FONDA I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. JANE WAGNER When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom... JANE ROBERTS A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. JANE FONDA But look what we have built low-income projects that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism ... JANE JACOBS You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful ... JANE FONDA A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not... JANE HARRISON My husband said he wanted to have a relationship with a redhead, so I dyed my hair. JANE FONDA I worry that no matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up. JANE WAGNER You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spe... JANE GOODSELL Channels, psychological and psychic, always exist, sending communications back and forth through the... JANE ROBERTS Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ... JANE HOWARD From politics it was an easy step to silence. JANE AUSTEN There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. JANE AUSTEN I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. JANE AUSTEN Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerab... JANE AUSTEN Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itsel... JANE ADDAMS One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. JANE AUSTEN It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good co... JANE AUSTEN It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s... JANE AUSTEN I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than o... JANE AUSTEN The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and... JANE ADDAMS One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. JANE AUSTEN One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, noth... JANE AUSTEN Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Those who do not complain are never pitied. JANE AUSTEN Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. JANE AUSTEN In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. JANE AUSTEN I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. JANE AUSTEN Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o... JANE AUSTEN What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. JANE AUSTEN With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. JANE AUSTEN There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman t... JANE AUSTEN It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be... JANE AUSTEN