Laurel Thatcher Quotes

#1. As I've already mentioned, 1984 and I were getting on famously. A no-frills setup, run without sentiment, snobbery or cultural favouritism, Airstrip One seemed like my kind of town. (I saw myself as an idealistic young corporal in the Thought Police.)

Martin Amis

#2. Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#3. Writing, unfortunately, takes last priority for my time but it's the first priority in my heart I wish I had all the time for. Such is reality.

Veronica Purcell

#4. Sometimes there is naught you can do for a man, save stand quietly beside him and believe. (Advice to Felicity Langley from her Nanny Rana)

Elizabeth Boyle

#5. A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#6. I never think I have success even when I have it, for better or for worse.

Juliette Lewis

#7. History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#8. A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#9. An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#10. 'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

Dan Harmon

#11. When you're a kid and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.

Alex Kurtzman

#12. Life is a wonderful gift.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Above all, practice being loyal to your Soul.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#14. Ain't it strange how innocent little creatures like children like the blood-thirstiest stories?

L.M. Montgomery

#15. To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#16. The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing

Seth Godin

#17. Ya game is fine, but ya booze-eyes are a problem. Not like ya ta drink this much. I reckon ya banjo'd, so ya are.

JoAnne Kenrick