Delores Williams Quotes

#1. When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#2. When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

Sam Abell

#3. You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

Anna Quindlen

#4. When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to marry a woman and raise kids with her. I kept telling myself the sky was red, but I always knew it was blue.

Jason Collins

#5. Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Howard Tayler

#6. Natural childbirth allows the hormones that have been working for women for thousands of years to fulfill their functions. This is more important than just helping a woman through labor and delivery. Birth-related hormones also affect well-being much later in life.

Janet Schwegel

#7. The burden isn't that everything has to be a book. It's that everything can be a book. And doesn't count as life until it is.

Philip Roth

#8. She was stuffing her innards back. Sewing herself up, putting her skin, her make-up, her party frock back on.

Louise Penny

#9. Advertising ... is a parasitic activity; it forces goods for which there is no real need or demand on a foolish or even a reluctant public, always by appealing to their lower instincts.

Ann Bridge