Top 29 Glendon Quotes
#1. Will asked Miss Beasley what kind of man Glendon Dinsmore had been and she answered, as different from you as air is from earth. He asked which he was, air or earth? She laughed and said, That's what I like about you - you really don't know.
LaVyrle Spencer
#2. All who are genuinely committed to the advancement of women can and must offer a woman or a girl who is pregnant, frightened, and alone a better alternative than the destruction of her own unborn child
Mary Ann Glendon
#4. The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#5. To earlier feminists who had fought for the vote and for fair treatment in the workplace, it had seemed obvious that the ready availability of abortion would facilitate the sexual exploitation of women.
Mary Ann Glendon
#6. Have the courage to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, for the distance between you and your dreams is merely action. Never hope. Hope will lead you nowhere. The greatest lesson I learned was that those who reach for their dreams walk in stardust.
Dylan Saccoccio
#7. I would bet the most perfect peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich ever assembled that there are more well-adjusted people around today than people who aren't and I think it is damn tragic more of us do not appear in books. 3 symbiosis, n.
Glendon Swarthout
#8. TV," I said, "do you believe in God?" "I believe," he said, "in Walt Disney." "You too!" We had clicked.
Glendon Swarthout
#9. The weather wouldn't settle down. It would rain cats and dogs, then stop, then drip awhile, then stop while it made up its mind what to do next.
Glendon Swarthout
#10. Work was not a cure; it never had been: it simply grew a skin on despair, and crusted over it.
Jo Baker
#11. You shut your door to these poor women," he said so they could hear him, "and you'll answer for it the rest of your lives. You won't sleep. You'll choke on drinks. The food you eat'll block up your bowels and you'll die of your own shit.
Glendon Swarthout
#12. Unlike the beasts of the wild, the many cruel varieties of human monsters, when at last cornered, seldom fight with greater ferocity. Instead, they reveal the cowardice at the core of their brutality.
Dean Koontz
#13. If others fell by the wayside, dear women and strong, loved by men, how had she, single and unloved, kept her sanity?
Glendon Swarthout
#14. Tears were a women's guns, to be shed when no other weapon would work.
Glendon Swarthout
#15. The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch.
Thomas Reed
#16. This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.
Otto Schily
#17. The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
Anna Julia Cooper
#18. ripped. I got a glance at his abs when he picked up the woman's things. Yeah, I looked up his shirt. What of it? Plenty of men have looked up my skirt. Consider it karma.
~Julia
Adela Knight
#19. Plus I think it would be good for men to know they have limits.
Glendon Swarthout
#20. It's a great affirmation of the possibility of overcoming conflict through reason and good will.
Mary Ann Glendon
#21. Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
Emma Watson
#22. Like blind boys they found each other, and confirmed each other, and through the FM of the flesh they sent to one another impulses of courage and affection.
Glendon Swarthout
#23. Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
Barbara Tuchman
#24. Ask the way to the Ladies Room and you're "processed." Freedom of choice, my backside.
Glendon Swarthout
#25. Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail the most intimate aspects of personal life, while maintaining an almost prudish reserve concerning the political significance of family life.
Mary Ann Glendon
#26. It was as though the great black bird which had all the night nested the egg of the earth lifted its wings and let light under and then with gigantic thrust of pinion flew upwards and it was day.
Glendon Swarthout
#27. We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.
Nicolas Chamfort
#28. She'd give him time, then logic. Men's minds were like wooden axles. Now and then they needed grease.
Glendon Swarthout
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