Fiction is organized gossip.
CATHERINE GASKIN Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy.
CATHERINE GASKIN I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.
CATHERINE GASKIN Although I long to get away from the typewriter, if I think I can produce a better opening or a bett...
CATHERINE GASKIN I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship.
CATHERINE GASKIN Getting to my typewriter is something I push myself to, but once I am working, I work hard.
CATHERINE GASKIN There's no way I could give you a close guess. There are several parks and several people involved i...
AL GASKIN I get bored because of so much work. But I enjoy seeing people smile when they see the lights and th...
AL GASKIN I like taking the lights down better than putting them up. Christmas lights are sensitive and it tak...
AL GASKIN There's no way I could give you a close guess. There are several parks and several people involved i...
AL GASKIN I get bored because of so much work. But I enjoy seeing people smile when they see the lights and th...
AL GASKIN I like taking the lights down better than putting them up. Christmas lights are sensitive and it tak...
AL GASKIN It takes a week to take them down. We start taking them down and then put them in storage.
AL GASKIN It takes longer to put them up than it does to take them down.
AL GASKIN There's no way I could give you a close guess. There are several parks and several people involved i...
AL GASKIN I get bored because of so much work. But I enjoy seeing people smile when they see the lights and th...
AL GASKIN I like taking the lights down better than putting them up. Christmas lights are sensitive and it tak...
AL GASKIN Be a pineapple: Stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet on the inside.
KATHERINE GASKIN I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
INA MAY GASKIN We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.
INA MAY GASKIN It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see ...
INA MAY GASKIN The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman a...
INA MAY GASKIN If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less th...
INA MAY GASKIN I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make peo...
INA MAY GASKIN Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The...
INA MAY GASKIN There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So...
INA MAY GASKIN It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many ...
INA MAY GASKIN What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might no...
INA MAY GASKIN The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the ...
INA MAY GASKIN My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big...
CATHERINE MARTIN I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.
CATHERINE OPIE How nice it would be to breeze through life and just brush things off. I never read reviews because ...
CATHERINE TATE It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as i...
CATHERINE MCCORMACK In America you need a bodyguard to go out.
CATHERINE DENEUVE Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone el...
CATHERINE O'HARA I listen to Radio 4 and put the iPod on shuffle. I like the randomness of, say, the Stones, then som...
CATHERINE MCCORMACK When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention...
CATHERINE PONDER If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
CATHERINE PONDER I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a to...
CATHERINE CRIER Sex seemed like a thing that might only happen to me at random, outside my control, like the weather...
CATHERINE LACEY The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
CATHERINE PONDER We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
CATHERINE BOOTH When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional l...
CATHERINE PONDER I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
CATHERINE DENEUVE I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she...
CATHERINE MALANDRINO I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented ...
CATHERINE CRIER The fact that I ended up married to a decent man is still a source of amazement to me, thanks to ...
CATHERINE JINKS Mostly I wanted to be a writer, though for a couple of years there I wanted to be an animator, becau...
CATHERINE JINKS I'm afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.
CATHERINE O'HARA I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something r...
CATHERINE O'HARA We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the P...
CATHERINE BELL I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that ch...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because ...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualitie...
CATHERINE DENEUVE I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter...
CATHERINE ASTOLFO Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
CATHERINE O'HARA I was at a party in London when I met Bond producer Barbara Broccoli. She introduced herself, and I ...
CATHERINE BACH Acting is about giving yourself away, like the U2 song 'With or Without You.' You just don&#...
CATHERINE HICKS At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, becau...
CATHERINE HICKS If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting...
CATHERINE KEENER Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? Ho...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.
CATHERINE MCCORMACK Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusua...
CATHERINE MARTIN I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the...
CATHERINE FISHER To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.
CATHERINE ASARO Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the ...
CATHERINE HICKS I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is ...
CATHERINE DENEUVE On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.
CATHERINE DENEUVE I've worked on really big budget movies as a designer - 'Vanilla Sky,' 'Three Kings;...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE I'd run out of options. That's how these things usually happen, how a person ends up placing all her...
CATHERINE LACEY None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.
CATHERINE LACEY I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the ra...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE My characters are at their best, when I let them lead
CATHERINE DORSETTE Lewa, mystery-king of know-nothingness. That's me!
CATHERINE HAPKA Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.
CATHERINE KEENER Fur is my default, my indulgence. All human beings and myself have a lot of defaults. Many indulgenc...
CATHERINE MALANDRINO Someone said once that they'd never heard of a crime they couldn't imagine committing, and I realize...
CATHERINE LACEY Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mech...
CATHERINE TATE Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the r...
CATHERINE TATE If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
CATHERINE BOOTH I had always liked, well, who didn't love Lestat and fall in love with 'Interview with the V...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people...
CATHERINE KEENER You make your son out to be to be almost an idiot; well let me tell you something, Mrs Loan, if he w...
CATHERINE COOKSON Oh God, I'm sorry I bring trouble on people. I don't mean to, you know that, you know that. And don'...
CATHERINE COOKSON The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for...
CATHERINE COOKSON We have five kids that never came off the court, ... I know they were tired, but they showed a lot o...
CATHERINE YOUNG Whew, we knew Bentonville was going to be good, and one of the teams to beat in the conference ... I...
CATHERINE YOUNG We kept saying, If you'll load the gun, we'll put it down.' It was a great win for us,
CATHERINE YOUNG Patty's our captain and she's worked on her leadership skills. She's gotten so much better at setter...
CATHERINE YOUNG We started off a little slow. The heat was definitely a factor. Once we got going, we had 3-4 nice c...
CATHERINE YOUNG Four out of five people bitten would have no idea that they have West Nile Virus, one in five will g...
CATHERINE YOUNG It was so small and senseless. A petty argument lost him his life.
CATHERINE YOUNG We don't want to start settling for moral victories, but that was a moral victory for us. We went to...
CATHERINE YOUNG Last year she was an average to an above-average setter. This year her setting has tremendously impr...
CATHERINE YOUNG She'll be able to play in college, ... and that was her goal. We weren't sure last year, but someone...
CATHERINE YOUNG The first retrospective was held in Berlin in the mid-1990s. His centennial was 2002: There were a b...
CATHERINE WYLER We tried to get a good combination.
CATHERINE WYLER She's fully engaged at all levels.
CATHERINE WYLER The fact that men and women are nominated this year in films that women have directed is good for wo...
CATHERINE WYLER It was kind of weird being scheduled. We just came in with our bags and our pillows and said, 'We're...
CATHERINE WOOD We joked that she would either be an income tax deduction baby or a first New Year baby. Either way,...
CATHERINE WOOD My doctor decided it would be easier on me if I didn't wait. It was really easy. It only took six mi...
CATHERINE WOOD The mother's little helpers of the 1960s and 1970s are all available now on the Internet. You don't ...
CATHERINE WOOD Because the old rate, if you will, didn't produce enough profits.
CATHERINE WILLIAMS They're not going to be real sympathetic for you staying at the old rate,
CATHERINE WILLIAMS Long term, what's the impact? Is it worth getting $300 back and having your niece never speak to you...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS They seemed very happy to be here.
CATHERINE WILLIAMS The first byword is that lending to family and friends on a handshake is probably one of the most sp...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS Let's say Susie and Bob show up to the family picnic. He's got a new Coleman stove, he owes you mone...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS It's really a message of hope and belief. Father Hedges took an old old tradition and brought it bac...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS For many people, the reason they're keeping their financial life in chaos is that they really don't ...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS If you really want to make it easy on yourself, put a calendar, pens and pencils, stamps and envelop...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS [Probably the riskiest thing you can do is to either co-sign a loan or borrow money to lend to someo...
CATHERINE WILLIAMS This is a sad day for our democracy. The court has not only missed an opportunity to right a great h...
CATHERINE WEISS Once Nebraska went, Iowa was the only state outside of the Confederacy to maintain the rule.
CATHERINE WEISS This is a sad day for our democracy.
CATHERINE WEISS The State and City Boards of Elections have been aware of these illegal practices for at least two y...
CATHERINE WEISS We have a 1,300-square-foot house and their presence is always known. We needed to find harmony, wit...
CATHERINE WAGNER In the last 25 years, my work has dealt with such ideas,
CATHERINE WAGNER [A Gothic Revival armchair next to a petite red chair demonstrates the] stereotypical rhetoric about...
CATHERINE WAGNER This relates to my other work and fits into a long line of thinking. I am using furniture here as a ...
CATHERINE WAGNER They are hybrid narratives so that the viewer constructs his or her own story.
CATHERINE WAGNER [Tate still didn't know quite what to think.] I just came up here from New Orleans, ... And now this...
CATHERINE TATE We say to her, 'Seriously, people will think you are taking the mickey out of them if you say that w...
CATHERINE TATE Did Graeme Norton break your heart, sir?
CATHERINE TATE Are you disrespecting me?
CATHERINE TATE She is genuinely adorable, but she will say to people she doesn't know, 'Have an amazing day',
CATHERINE TATE There's no simple answer. We're certainly not going to be able to attract enough immigrants who can ...
CATHERINE SWIFT It's a fairly permanent situation. You can always tough something out for a little while, but it's g...
CATHERINE SWIFT And the number one reason is fuel prices,
CATHERINE SWIFT If you have fewer jobs created and less of a boost to the economy overall, then that effect naturall...
CATHERINE SWIFT It's just not practical. Seventy-five per cent of businesses in this country have fewer than five em...
CATHERINE SWIFT The vacancy rate for the smallest companies---those with fewer than five employees---is four times t...
CATHERINE SWIFT The growing concern with business input costs such as energy and insurance ... will start to hamper ...
CATHERINE SWIFT [Several American states have either lowered or put a moratorium on gas taxes in the wake of hurrica...
CATHERINE SWIFT It touches everybody to some extent. Many businesses have travel as a component of the business, ......
CATHERINE SWIFT Our major goal with school construction procurement is to ensure that we have efficient state-of-the...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN We've put $623 million into 20 projects so far, ... That means more than half of our students are in...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN I think we're always in a continuous cycle of trying to attract people who really want to teach in a...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN We're really trying to focus more on data, so that you know where your students are at any point in ...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN We know that all our schools are trying very hard, ... To be put on a list -- it's just a stigma I'm...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN He overall thinks that No Child Left Behind has laudable goals, but it's too narrowly focused on jus...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN [Over a year ago, the New Haven school system launched a strategic road map that shares some goals a...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN They clicked right off. They were thinking about getting married.
CATHERINE SULLIVAN This year, more of the artists are combining two or three processes to make one straight print. Ther...
CATHERINE SULLIVAN It really bothered me that this had happened to her so young, at the age of 17, and she had been giv...
CATHERINE SMITH He was walking on the side of the road in the grass, facing traffic and pretty much doing whatever h...
CATHERINE SMITH Basically, the giveaway is a response to the raid -- to show that city officials and community is be...
CATHERINE SMITH I remember when The Fast and the Furious came out. My girlfriends and I waited in line way before th...
CATHERINE SMITH This is the first time we?re saying something like this because we haven?t seen this kind of increas...
CATHERINE ROSSI We'd like to know why prices are not declining in line with the national average.
CATHERINE ROSSI Rate increases for lodgings are mostly a result of supply and demand, especially in major markets. R...
CATHERINE ROSSI When we see gas prices going up to where they are now with no clear end in sight, people reconsider ...
CATHERINE ROSSI We are seeing gas prices drop dramatically. Thirty states are below $3, compared to 17 last Monday.
CATHERINE ROSSI Being lost doesn't always have to be a bad thing. After all, when Columbus got lost, he discovered A...
CATHERINE ROSSI Oil companies are responsibly reflecting the public?s outcry at the pump over gas prices. We have no...
CATHERINE ROSSI As we learn more and more about the teenage brain, which tells us that teenagers brains are not full...
CATHERINE ROSSI AAA knows that motorists are outraged that oil companies are making record profits while drivers dig...
CATHERINE ROSSI People planned to drive less and expected to change their driving habits. They figure out ways to ma...
CATHERINE ROSSI The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebasti...
CATHERINE ROBERTS It just seemed natural.
CATHERINE ROBERTS They have a much better work ethic, ... In China there's no Chinese Idol show, no chance for instant...
CATHERINE ROBERTS I get very depressed, ... American students are so much lazier. They don't work a fraction as hard a...
CATHERINE ROBERTS The key to eating real Chinese food is don't ask what it is,
CATHERINE ROBERTS I like to travel, I like to do it as much as I can,
CATHERINE ROBERTS I'm very proud of Danbury High School. He is very connected to his own high school (in Stamford), so...
CATHERINE RICHARD We replace desks one an as-needed basis, but is this something we want to look into now? Yes.
CATHERINE RICHARD The new (teacher) contract will call for a little more freedom for this type of work, and we will ha...
CATHERINE RICHARD One of the things we have tried to do is work on a culture to increase student achievement for all s...
CATHERINE RICHARD Joan is part of a wonderful team of nurses at the school. We have 3,000 students here, and three nur...
CATHERINE RICHARD Ideally it'd be awesome if the two of us were paired together in the five-K. We really like being pa...
CATHERINE RANEY We need to start working on development. We really need kids to start skating. We've got talent out ...
CATHERINE RANEY It sucks that we haven't gotten a medal yet. Good thing we've got the guys.
CATHERINE RANEY I wish I could have held it together a little better in the last three laps, but it was a great Olym...
CATHERINE RANEY We follow him. No one practices harder.
CATHERINE RANEY I'm not going to lie. You always want to skate on fast ice. It was a little disappointing here.
CATHERINE RANEY If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
CATHERINE PONDER There will certainly be new courses in that area. It may also impact the existing interdisciplinary ...
CATHERINE PETERS Our hope with this initiative is to establish some cohesion to the existing activities that will all...
CATHERINE PETERS We have existing strengths in engineering and life sciences that we would like to bring together.
CATHERINE PETERS We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals.
CATHERINE PETERS The intent is to hire an individual who can both foster connections with the existing research in en...
CATHERINE PETERS This proposal from the Bank does not suggest a strong ambition to re-direct financing away from exis...
CATHERINE PEARCE This is a major, major deal and a major historic day, to see this agreement going ahead.
CATHERINE PEARCE I don't think it amounts to very much, but if the United States can sign up to that then it will mov...
CATHERINE PEARCE Extreme weather events, drought and rising sea levels threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions...
CATHERINE PEARCE Countries are not on track to reach even their modest Kyoto targets, despite growing recognition tha...
CATHERINE PEARCE The technologies which seem to be receiving interest from the Bank include those with damaging socia...
CATHERINE PEARCE The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that will our prayer.
CATHERINE MARSHALL Without realizing what was happening, most of us gradually came to take for granted the premises und...
CATHERINE MARSHALL Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Without realizing what w...
CATHERINE MARSHALL If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knock...
CATHERINE MARSHALL Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral...
CATHERINE MARSHALL Commemoration of Clement, Bishop of Rome, Martyr, c.100 One can believe in the divinity of Jesus ...
CATHERINE MARSHALL Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942 Whence comes this idea that if what we are doi...
CATHERINE MARSHALL Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373 If the wounds of millions are to be ...
CATHERINE MARSHALL I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
CATHERINE GREAT I am one of the people who love the why of things
CATHERINE GREAT In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
CATHERINE GREAT You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE GREAT