Cordelia's Quotes

#1. You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold

#2. The SpecOps dress code stated that our apparel should be 'dignified' but in Cordelia's case they had obviously stretched a point.

Jasper Fforde

#3. What's in the box? Not a severed head - again - I trust?" It seemed too small for that, fortunately. Cordelia's gray eyes glinted. "Now, now, Oliver. Bring home one dismembered body part, once, mind you, once, and people get twitchy about checking your luggage ever after.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#4. My sister Cordelia's last report said that she was not only the worst girl in the school, but the worst there had ever been in the memory of the oldest nun.

Evelyn Waugh

#5. Cordelia looked at Edric. "Which way will lead to our respite, think you?"
"I don't know, my lady," he admitted.
There was a pause.
"This way," Tania decided, heading off to the left and pulling him with her.
"Why?"
"It's downhill.

Allan Frewin Jones

#6. An interest in Star Trek and an antisocial lifestyle may not, in fact, be unassailable correlates of talent in computer programming.

Cordelia Fine

#7. A sociocultural environment is not some cunningly contrived thing only exists in social psychology labs. Don't look now, but you're in one right this moment.

Cordelia Fine

#8. Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

Leonie Swann

#9. You're dead, Cordelia.'
No I'm not.
'Yes you are. You're dead.
Lie down.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Cordelia shook her head helplessly. "You would. A vote. Right." She buried her face in her hands a moment, and sobbed a laugh. "Why?" she asked through her fingers.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#11. She had gone from most favored nation to useless ally, from Cordelia to Ophelia.

Eleanor Brown

#12. Are you sure this isn't instant boots? asked Cordelia sadly, for in color, taste, and smell they closely resembled pulverized shoe leather pressed into wafers.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. The simple, brief experience of imagining oneself as another transformed both self-perception and, through this transformation, behavior. The maxim "fake it till you make it" gains empirical support.

Cordelia Fine

#14. Cordelia: I personally don't think it's possible to come up with a crazier plan.
Oz: We attack the Mayor with hummus.
Cordelia: I stand corrected.
Oz: Just keeping things in perspective.

Mutant Enemy Joss Whedon

#15. A member of my family, who shall remain nameless, refers to all newborns as 'blobs'.

Cordelia Fine

#16. My husband would probably like you to know that, for the sake of my research for this chapter, he has had to put up with an awful lot of contemptuous snorting.

Cordelia Fine

#17. Sorry is one of those meaningless words people toss around before they kick you in the head again.

Cordelia Strube

#18. Liam's face grew serious. I'll take good care of you, Cordelia. I promise.

Kristan Higgins

#19. Mourn for Ophelia, if you like. Put ashes on your head because Cordelia was strangled. Cry out against Heaven because the daughter of Brabantio died. But don't waste your tears over Sibyl Vane. She was less real than they are.

Oscar Wilde

#20. First, love comes in all different sizes, shapes, and colors. And can't nobody tell you that however and whichever way you choose to love is wrong. Unless it's with kin or a pet, I seen somethin' like that once and it was just fuckin' gross.

Cordelia Michelsen

#21. I have always been a huge fan of reggae music. I remember going to see Bob Marley And The Wailers at the Hammersmith Odeon when I was 13. I went with my big sister, Cordelia, and it remains the most wonderful concert I've ever been to.

Amanda Donohoe

#22. While parenthood served as no disadvantage at all to men, there was evidence of a substantial "motherhood penalty". Mothers received only half as many callbacks as their identically qualified childless counterparts.

Cordelia Fine

#23. Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.

Cordelia Fine

#24. Emma Cordelia Carstairs," he said. He looked both very young and very old at the same time. There was blood at his throat where his faded rune stood out, but it wasn't his. He seemed to be searching her face, though for what, she couldn't tell. "Stay with your parabatai

Cassandra Clare

#25. This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It's as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered.

Margaret Atwood

#26. Neurosexism promotes damaging, limiting, potentially self-fulfilling stereotypes. Three years ago, I discovered my son's kindergarten teacher reading a book that claimed that his brain was incapable of forging the connection between emotion and language. And so I decided to write this book.

Cordelia Fine

#27. Cordelia glared at me. 'I expect if someone strapped you to table an swung an axe over your naked quivering flesh like The Pit and the Pendulum, you'd be correcting his grammar'.

Victoria Clayton

#28. If only the president hadn't tried to dodge, he would have been all right. As it was, the toe of her jackboot caught him in the groin with perfect unplanned accuracy. His mouth made a soundless "O" and he went down behind the rostrum. Cordelia,

Lois McMaster Bujold

#29. Cordelia, " he said quietly, his smile fading. "I seem to be in love you.

Kristan Higgins

#30. As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.

Cordelia Fine

#31. Cordelia faced one more climb onto that torture-device for humans and horses called a saddle.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#32. With each daunting step, the armor I'd always worn like a protective cloak unraveled, and my footing faltered.

E.R. Pierce

#33. The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.

Charisma Carpenter

#34. What are you?" Lady Marsden asked, not bothering to hide her surprise. Obviously the lady was not accustomed to being caught snooping, let alone shut down twice.
"I have no idea,

Kady Cross

#35. He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

Soren Kierkegaard

#36. 0Cross-gender behaviour is seen as less acceptable in boys than it is in girls: unlike the term 'tomboy' there is nothing positive implied by its male counterpart, the 'sissy'.

Cordelia Fine

#37. [Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"
[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#38. I want her to look upon me, just for a moment. But she never does and I walk away. Sarai I feel like I should be like Cordelia, sitting next to me wide awake yet unaware of it herself.

J.A. Redmerski

#39. She opened her mouth once to speak, closed it, then finally ripped out, "Why aren't you on your way home? I gave you an order, Lieutenant!" Stuben, anticipating a warmer reception, was momentarily nonplussed. "We took a vote," he said simply, as though it explained everything. Cordelia

Lois McMaster Bujold

#40. She tells everyone she's an introvert." Cordelia sniffed. "It's a sad, psychological malady. Comes from reading way too much Kafka.

Ellen Hart

#41. Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds."
He grinned. "Onions don't have seeds, Cordelia."
"I stand corrected," she said dryly.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#42. Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainly ignorant. What place this is, and all the skill I have
Remembers not these garments. Nor I know not
Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me,
For as I am a man, I think this lady
To be my child Cordelia.

William Shakespeare

#43. I think the most important quality of a mentor is that they are open to following students where they want to go. Not always pushing their own agenda.

Cordelia Jensen

#44. Not that I want to be thin. Heaven forbid. I do not want to take up less space in the world. I should like to take up more...

Ellen Hart

#45. Miss Cordelia thought she had never seen anybody so much like an incarnate smile before. Smiles of all kinds seemed literally to riot over his ruddy face and in and out of his eyes and around the corners of his mouth.

L.M. Montgomery

#46. Dallas to Cordelia:
You were my dream, Dee. I just didn't know it.The part of me that I was always searching for.

Lorraine Heath

#47. Cordelia: I hope I've got a vocation.
Charles: I don't know what that means.
Cordelia: It means you can be a nun. If you haven't a vocation it's no good however much you want to be; and if you have a vocation, you can't get away from it, however much you hate it.

Evelyn Waugh

#48. If I were to meet Cordelia again, what would I tell her about myself? The truth, or whatever would make me look good?
Probably the latter. I still have that need.

Margaret Atwood

#49. And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#50. Here upon the earth evil is such was Shakespeare's declaration in the most emphatic accent. Iago actually exists. There is also in the earth a sacred passion of deliverance a pure redeeming ardor. Cordelia exists.

Edward Dowden

#51. the greater the gender equity of a country, the smaller the gender gap in the importance of the financial resources of a partner (as well as in the importance of other preferences, like chastity and good looks).36

Cordelia Fine

#52. ...'Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.'
'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than the main assignment,' observed Cordelia.

Esme Raji Codell

#53. Why can't we have one of those quick pregnancies like Bella and Edward? Gwen from Torchwood. Scully. Deanna Troi. Or even Cordelia when that demon impregnated her. Twenty-four hours later bam! Demon child.

Darynda Jones

#54. May your love of hate and hate to love be dusted from this Earth.

Cordelia Malthere

#55. This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

Margaret Atwood

#56. Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

Cordelia Fine

#57. Boys do not pursue mathematical activities at a higher rate than girls do because they are better at mathematics. They do so, at least partially, because they think they are better.

Cordelia Fine

#58. I'm not afraid of seeing Cordelia. I'm afraid of being Cordelia. Because in some way we changed places, and I've forgotten when.

Margaret Atwood

#59. Although self-reported endorsement of sexist attitudes didn't predict hiring bias, self-reported objectivity in decision making did.

Cordelia Fine

#60. Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.

William Shakespeare

#61. Biology can be said to define possibilities but not determine them; it is never irrelevant but it is also not determinant.

Cordelia Fine