Gurley Flynn Quotes

#1. And so, surpassing my own records for dangerous, reckless behavior, I ripped off Sonya's bracelet.
I'm Rose Hathaway.

Richelle Mead

#2. I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me

Jonny Lang

#3. ... Clear pebbles of the rain ...

Mary Oliver

#4. A woman likes a strong, silent man because she thinks he is listening.

Croft M. Pentz

#5. They did not believe in making any contracts. They believed that as long as you were organized, you could hold the office to what it said it was going to do. But a contract, a piece of paper held you and so they didn't make any contracts.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#6. The idea [the government's 'You Win' campaign] is that instead of young people in Nigeria waiting to get employment, they should create their own jobs and employ their peers and employ other people.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

#7. I must have an heir. Do you understand?" He grit his teeth and said, as if he were pulling the words, bloody and torn, from his very heart, "I must marry a woman who can bear children.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#8. They've destroyed their environment, by and large. They've eliminated most other species on the planet, which is just an indication of their sloppiness and their deadness and their oblivion - but even more so, they've cut themselves off from happiness.

Frederick Lenz

#9. I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of ...

Paul Robeson

#10. History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#11. The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#12. A labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#13. My grandfather is the greatest man I'll ever know.

Stephanie Zimbalist

#14. To help safeguard her, I remained a vigilant bather and hand-washer. I also made sure we didn't share cups or utensils and I took strict care not to poo in her mouth, even at night.

Rob Delaney

#15. When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

Paul McCartney

#16. Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Of course, our roles within the family are radically different. Generational stereotypes of moms and dads have disintegrated A-bomb style. We are making it up as we go along, pioneering a new era of equality.

Gudjon Bergmann

#18. I like playing an array of different roles. From the fun, comedic roles to the serious roles. It's always fun to play the role that either closely represents your own personality or the role that is completely opposite of yourself.

Manika

#19. A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#20. We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

George Eliot

#21. The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn