Margaret Whitlam Quotes

#1. Now that I've reached the age where I need my children more than they need me, I really understand how grand it is to be a grandmother.

Margaret Whitlam

#2. I saw my role as prime minister's wife as being human towards other humans and not treating them badly.

Margaret Whitlam

#3. The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful lake. Our line of defense is a natural one and can be maintained with a minimum of military effort and expense.

Douglas MacArthur

#4. But she had never known that a man could want a woman and not take her because he did care. There was something very fragile and precious in the idea, though she didn't really understand it. Maybe someday she would.

Mary Jo Putney

#5. She will never understand how some people can prefer other people to animals.

Fredrik Backman

#6. A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.

Eileen Myles

#7. Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.

Guy Finley

#8. I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

Edward Carpenter

#9. I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

Rachel Hunter

#10. We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

Adam Riess