Mastretta Quotes

#1. When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.

Angeles Mastretta

#2. The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

Louise Penny

#3. Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.

Angeles Mastretta

#4. I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so that they may love me, and so that I can love them. For me, this is very important, and many, or all, of my relationships are based on that.

Angeles Mastretta

#5. If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

Jens Voigt

#6. My passion is writing, but it is also a fight because I still see home as a woman's duty.

Angeles Mastretta

#7. I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

M. Night Shyamalan

#8. Clear, direct and vibrant instructions will inject energy into the class, and create a feeling of safety for the students.

Gudjon Bergmann

#9. There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.

Angeles Mastretta

#10. To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#11. One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

Amos Oz

#12. I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

Neil LaBute

#13. Gertrudis could knit five sweaters in three days, ride horseback for hours, bake pastries for all the charity bazaars, take a painting class, dance flamenco, sing rancheras, feed lunch to seventy invited guests on a Sunday, and fall in love with total impunity with three different men every Monday.

Angeles Mastretta

#14. If you don't choose what you want, someone make the choice for you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. 1. Your heart starts hurting when you think about him.

Bisco Hatori

#16. In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

Mark Twain

#17. The cadence, that indecipherable, insignificant something that makes someone walk a certain way, speak in a certain tone, look with a certain pause, caress with a certain exactitude.

Angeles Mastretta

#18. We, in the late '60s, '70s and '80s, are acting like we have just discovered freedom and liberation. But I'm sure that many women have worked for that for such a long time.

Angeles Mastretta

#19. Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.

Laozi