Jane Swisshelm Quotes

#1. Had I made capital on my prettiness, I should have closed the doors of public employment to women for many a year, by the very means which now makes them weak, underpaid competitors in the great workshop of the world.

Jane Swisshelm

#2. Holy shit ... but we were using condoms."
Pink tinged her cheeks. "Not the weekend at the lodge."
He leaned over and lowered his voice. "Yeah, but I pulled out."
Emma cocked her brows. "And you're Mr. Super Potent Sperm, remember?

Katie Ashley

#3. It is an old adage, "All is fair in love as in war," but I thought not of general laws, and only felt a private grievance.

Jane Swisshelm

#4. Let the erring sisters depart in peace; the idea of getting up a civil war to compel the weaker States to remain in the Union appears to us horrible to the last degree.

Jane Swisshelm

#5. I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

Ana Castillo

#6. We have not the slightest idea that women are made of such light material that the breath of any fool or knave may blow them on the rocks of ruin.

Jane Swisshelm

#7. Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

Thomas A Kempis

#8. I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.

Jane Swisshelm

#9. I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers cooking cabbage. "A servant of servants shall she be," must have been spoken of women, not Negroes.

Jane Swisshelm

#10. Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

Jane Swisshelm

#11. I moved to Louisiana to become the executive Chef at Commander's Place. And I must say I had some encouragement from friends such as Ella Brennan, the queen of the New Orleans's culinary set, and others. This was very flattering to a young man with a dream. I was only 26 years old.

Emeril Lagasse

#12. Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.

Jane Swisshelm

#13. A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.

Jane Swisshelm

#14. I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

Jane Swisshelm

#16. Dying is not difficult, yielding is impossible.

Jane Swisshelm

#17. I get that
but why replace him with this guy? I mean, Dick Clark did American Bandstand. All this guy's done is deny that he's gay.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#18. Because it can be deceived, the majority is as error-prone as any other ruler, but unlike other rulers, it can never be destroyed.

F.F. White

#19. I cannot tell what I am as much afraid of, as a woman who invariably washes on Monday. It is a kind of key to character; and if her mouth is not puckered and her brow wrinkled, they will be, unless she repents.

Jane Swisshelm

#20. It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

Jane Swisshelm

#21. When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

Jane Swisshelm

#22. Everything is practice.

Pele

#23. As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.

Jane Swisshelm

#24. I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

Milla Jovovich

#25. So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

Jane Swisshelm