Dorotheas Closet Quotes

#1. When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.

Sheryl Sandberg

#2. I just wanted to be alone for a while some place other than my house. Until morning.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.

John Berger

#4. The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.

Charles M. Schwab

#5. Love is impatient; love is cruel. It gets your hopes up then tears them down expecting you to be ok; able to cope without that second part of you that belongs to one unique person.

Alexandria Rhodes

#6. Anything was possible when people had secrets. And everyone had secrets. Even people you trusted. Maybe even especially people you trusted, because they had an investment in maintaining that trust.

Joy Preble

#7. You want the truth? I've been fucked and betrayed often enough to not trust anybody. And that includes you." Frank shrugged. "Don't take it personal."
"Join the club. We meet Tuesdays. We never share the location with each other, and we show up armed.

Aleksandr Voinov

#8. Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

Athol Fugard

#9. The only proof of God in the world was color. Everything would have worked the same without it. So why would the world have been made so full of color if there wasn't a God?

Tony D'Souza

#10. I swear if I hear one more person call her a retard, I'm going to snap. I'm beginning to see why people hate that word so much. It makes me physically sick to hear it.

Melyssa Winchester

#11. My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

#12. All things that have been in this world, all things that are or will be in it, have to vanish: we have our sad farewell to give them.

Thomas Carlyle