Margo Jefferson Quotes

#1. Curled in the cavernous leather chair and faced Doctor Gordon across an acre of highly polished desk. Doctor

Sylvia Plath

#2. I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, which believes that Black men are the principal threat to the women of the world.

Ishmael Reed

#3. Creativity isn't far away, or outside of you. It's an inner movement, a heart-shift, a joy making its way out of your throat or hands or feet. So go for it. No one's watching. The payoff is magnificent.

Margo Jefferson

#4. Jess is not only a successful actress but also has a line of eco-friendly products called Honest that's become a million-dollar business. Jessica Alba an undercover businesswoman? That's my favorite kind of style - the kind with substance.

Derek Blasberg

#5. The theater let me dramatize inner struggles, the push-pull between the inner life and the world, the various selves I presented according to what each world required. And it let me use my body.

Margo Jefferson

#6. For better or worse, there is not a situation in one's daily life that does not have feminist subtext, superstructure, implications and one is constantly aware of it, even when you want to rest it stands up and hits you in the face.

Margo Jefferson

#7. We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us!

Leo Robin

#8. People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Kurt Vonnegut

#9. Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

Margo Jefferson

#10. Witty, brooding, contemplative, explosive: take your pick.

Margo Jefferson

#11. Silverlake-Echo was several miles due est of Mount lee, a hilly area with lots of twisting streets, greenery and seclusion, the kind of terrain a necrophiliac might find soothing.

James Ellroy

#12. For far too long she'd made herself small, made herself fit into their world.

Cornelia Funke

#13. As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Carol Leifer

#14. We make ourselves into the net that we throw across the ocean

Kate Elliott

#15. Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington.

Mike Lowry

#16. I've known white Australian girls from wealthy families who were sent to posh private schools, who knew all of that stuff, and I think would recognise much in Jefferson's book. What I related to most strongly was the sexism and misogyny Margo Jefferson had to battle.

Justine Larbalestier

#17. Some beliefs are so dangerous that it may be ethical to kill people for believing them.

Sam Harris

#18. I became a major league manager in several cities and was discharged. We call it discharged because there was no question I had to leave.

Casey Stengel

#19. I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Lucy Lawless

#20. What I did with my first records was, my writing process was that I didn't touch any instruments to write it, so I was making it all on the computer, and really the arrangements were coming first, the intricate thing.

Annie E. Clark