Lupita Hermin Quotes

#1. We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like oral sex. And it's not going to feel particularly good for girls as the big marker of adulthood.

Peggy Orenstein

#2. I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.

Walter Isaacson

#3. Trying to explain moral principles to Khe Sahn was like reviewing a standard 1040 tax form with a house cat!

David Sedaris

#4. Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

Donna Leon

#5. Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

Billy Bob Thornton

#6. If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year.

Charles Stross

#7. When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb to their mezzanines with their valuable family possessions.

Martin Parr

#8. Life never ceases having a meaning for a humble person. The freedom of choice, the sovereignty that we hold over our own souls, enables a person to discover the meaning of his or her own life every day, even in suffering or death.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#9. That's the function of big brothers ... to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#10. And keeps the palace of the soul.

Edmund Waller

#11. See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.

Francis Quarles