Dorothy Swenson Quotes

#1. I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.

Sondre Lerche

#2. I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the children they now have, than to bring others into the world who would not belong to me after they were born.

Susan B. Anthony

#3. I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

Taiye Selasi

#4. I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

Adam Gopnik

#5. I'd far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.

E. M. Forster

#6. When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#7. Here lies one whose name was writ on water.

John Keats

#8. Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

Peter Bogdanovich

#9. But regardless of what you think of yourself, when I look at you, I see someone beautiful. Someone who makes me insane, because all I can fucking think about is touching you. Being close to you. Being inside you. And there's a reason for that, baby.

Santino Hassell

#10. That made me hate you more. Happiness had no place in war

Kurt Vonnegut

#11. When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?

Ted Dekker

#12. In Judaism social action is religiousness, and religiousness implies social action.

Leo Baeck