Frenchies Traverse Quotes

#1. I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

Philip Roth

#2. I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

Cher

#3. Frankie scanned her eyes. I don't ask for things. I take them.

Holly Hood

#4. It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way

Joseph Heller

#5. Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

V.S. Naipaul

#6. His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People - particularly older ones - still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios - though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies.

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Naomi Wolf

#8. Having to be nice to people, which, as everyone knows, is the toughest job in the world

Marian Keyes

#9. A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Katherine Graham

#10. Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

Alton Brown

#11. The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.

Angela Merkel

#12. In my dictionary, romance is not maudlin, treacly sentiment. It is a curry, spiced with excitement, and humour, and a healthy dollop of cynicism.

Loretta Chase

#13. I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.

David Lynch