Estelle Freedman Quotes

#1. I use "equal worth" rather than equality because the latter term often assumes that men's historical experience - whether economic, political, or sexual - is the standard to which women should aspire.

Estelle B. Freedman

#2. People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

Susan Jaffe

#3. To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.

Tom Tomorrow

#4. A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

Barry Eisler

#5. You must be a power on earth, and must therefore accept all the consequences of this position.

Lajos Kossuth

#6. Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back.

Dennis Lehane

#7. You need never be discouraged or afraid. The way through difficulties has always been prepared for you, and you will find it if you exercise faith.

Henry B. Eyring

#8. Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Franz Kafka

#9. Here is the reality-as I've been saying for longer than I can remember, Scott Walker is a mediocre county executive who has risen far beyond his talents.

Rick Ungar

#10. It's a crazy soprano, and singing as a man as a woman. But for many years, I was on the road in Chicago as Mary Sunshine, so I can do that. I didn't think there was any way I was going to get it - it was so far out of my comfort-zone.

Max Von Essen

#11. We will ask two central questions throughout this course: 1. What difference does gender make? 2. For which women does it make a difference? Which women?

Estelle Freedman

#12. I'm suggesting you have sex so you don't shoot the squirrels. Let them have their nuts, man.

Rachel Van Dyken

#13. Faithfulness is produced by the Holy Spirit in a yielded Christian life.

Billy Graham

#14. Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

Allen West

#15. For all the cynicism that the world contains, people are a little more open to those things that maybe are to do with returning you to some kind of simpler, happier state.

Kenneth Branagh

#16. Weather abroad
and weather in the heart alike come on
Regardless of prediction.

Adrienne Rich

#17. There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.

Mike Tyson