Bossy Daughters Quotes

#1. I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale
never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

Ayelet Waldman

#2. This is my only and permanent complaint, that vulgar people, empty of the Spirit of God, want to judge solely by their human thinking what they listen to or read in the Bible, which has been pronounced and written by the Holy Spirit and in the Holy Spirit.

Meister Eckhart

#3. You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

Michelle Kwan

#4. There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.

Joia Mukherjee

#5. Benedict, but they say he doesn't set himself up on a pedestal.

Ken Follett

#6. I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

Patti Smith

#7. I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

Freddie Mercury

#8. We have been so trying to convince them from the very beginning of our organization, but with no success.

George Haven Putnam

#9. One time I picked it up and a voice goes, 'Hi, it's Sinatra. Can you play me a record?' I was like, 'Oh yeah, very funny,' and hung up. I thought someone was having a joke, but it was actually Frank. My manager told me there aren't many people who put the phone down on Sinatra.

Tony Blackburn

#10. Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.

Paige Craig