Darla Tressler Quotes

#1. We are unalterably opposed to the presentation of the female body being stripped, bound, raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the name of commercial entertainment and free speech

Susan Brownmiller

#2. On the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Marsha Norman

#3. Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

Jeanette Winterson

#4. You got nothin' to lose but your self-respect.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#5. Atheism and a kind of _second innocence_ belong together.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.

Helen Fielding

#7. Coaching is an art and I'm not going to let anyone change me.

Marty Stern

#8. So on the one hand in school you're teachers are constantly telling you that you can be whatever it is you want to be as long as you put your mind and heart to it, and yet at the same time I was also getting the clear message of, well, what can you do really?

Sheena Iyengar

#9. I thought this was the most incredible opportunity. Because 'Planet Of The Apes,' aside from the fantasy element of talking apes, is such an amazing franchise, because under the surface of that genre, you're actually looking at human nature.

Matt Reeves

#10. You can do this.

Jacquelyn Middleton

#11. The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different.

George Orwell

#13. I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.

Kathleen Turner

#14. A girl on North Fremont is discouraged by the postman, who tells her that only a traitor would dare exchange letters with the Japanese. NEW

Julie Otsuka