Chairwomen Quotes

#1. Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.

Darin Strauss

#2. Side by Side:
We sat side by side in the morning light & looked out at the future together.

Brian Andreas

#3. Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

Brene Brown

#4. Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

Barbara Bush

#5. As the hero learns, readers learn too.

Pamela Glass Kelly

#6. Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

Hanshan

#7. The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

Martha Beck

#8. I've been taught that relationships are supposed to be built from trust, but we're a walking untruth - solely made from love.

Mary Elizabeth

#9. You need only look at what's in front of you and find something there to appreciate.

Peter McWilliams

#10. I love to you" is more unusual than "I love you," but respects the two more: I love to who you are, to what you do, without reducing you to an object of my love.

Luce Irigaray

#11. Someone like Ashlee Simpson, she lip-synchs on 'Saturday Night Live,' gets totally called out la Milli Vanilli, and no one really cares that much. It doesn't make me hate Ashlee; she's just taking instructions.

Henry Rollins

#12. She lives the poetry she cannot write

Larry Wilde

#13. There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.

Colette

#14. Humans looked at the stars and they wished and they dreamed. He looked at the stars and knew they didn't matter. The stars were just chunks of glass in the black sky. No, the stars were meaningless.

Cynthia Eden