Harridans Quotes

#1. Scheherazade, of course, was always in the back of my mind, because she's also a storyteller identified as female who tells a lot of anti-female stories. There's a parade in The Arabian Nights of sorceresses, adulteresses, ghouls, sirens, harridans.

Marina Warner

#2. Into the breach, then. Against mobs of middle-aged moms and frightening harridans we shall prevail."
She nodded sharply, raising an invisible sword. "And damned be he - she - who cries, 'Hold, enough!'"
"Misquote Shakespeare in front of Samuel, I dare you," I told her, and she laughed.

Patricia Briggs

#3. Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

Amity Gaige

#4. I eventually shifted to video. Video opened up new conditions, or freed me from old conditions ...

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#5. I believe in something transcendent, but I've yet to meet someone with a convincing label for it.

Alex Mar

#6. Make a concise statement clearly and you should only need to say it once.

Mary Mihalic

#7. Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility

Naomi Novik

#8. What is birthday, but a celebration of death.

Aphole

#9. Community is a consequence. It results when people come together to accomplish things that are important to them and succeed. People who are uninvolved cannot feel this connection.

Richard Cornuelle

#10. Doing what you were born to do ... That's the way to be happy.

Agnes Martin

#11. Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket,
sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he'd look in on the Sailor's Grave, his old tin can's tavern on East Main Street.

Thomas Pynchon

#12. If you're not a sex object, you're in trouble.

Helen Gurley Brown

#13. It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.

Ben Horowitz

#14. I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

Jay Kay

#15. At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing.

Michelle Dockery

#16. That agony, that pain, that struggle, that rejection takes you to the place of grasping your dreams.

Euginia Herlihy