Gadfly Voynich Quotes

#1. I had thought about everything carefully before I had agreed to him. I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated; his heart and mine.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other..

Erma Bombeck

#3. Teachers and librarians are some of my favorite people, especially since I was a teacher myself. I love talking to them because they have wonderful ideas about how to share books, and especially about how to share my books with kids.

Rick Riordan

#4. A man has to define himself as a breadwinner, as opposed to thinking that well, women used to be caregivers who also wanted to have careers; men have always had careers, so why shouldn't they also want much more family time?

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#5. I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.

Ian McEwan

#6. They kill me because they are afraid of me; and what more can any man's heart desire?

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#7. Breakfast should always come before sleuthing.

Shannon Hale

#8. If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.

Iyanla Vanzant