Maureen Murdock Quotes

#1. You give all your brightness away
And it only makes you brighter.

Mike Heron

#2. Memoirists are our contemporary mythmakers.

Maureen Murdock

#3. Being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.

Maureen Murdock

#4. You're a good man, sister

Humphrey Bogart

#5. If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

Shantanu Narayen

#6. Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.

Maureen Murdock

#7. Don't think that we know everything there is to know. There are secrets to be found and unknown facts to be discovered. Who knows what delights there are to be discovered beyond our current knowledge.

Maxwell Grantly

#8. When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.

Maureen Murdock

#9. It is the second night," he said. "The dangerous night. The charm of the unknown is gone and the charm of familiarity has not yet come. We'll survive it.

Erich Maria Remarque

#10. The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#11. A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

Pat Conroy

#12. The way we tell our life story is the way we begin to live our life.

Maureen Murdock

#13. A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

Mary Shelley

#14. And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Archilochus

#15. Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

Robert Forman Horton

#16. Let your mind be harmonious with nature; let it bloom with all of her beauty to find inner peace.

Debasish Mridha

#17. You're like this frosting." She swiped another swirl of it on her finger, stood and leaned forward to touch it to his bottom lip. "Pretty, momentarily pleasurable, but with no real substance or sustenance.

Tracey Alvarez

#18. When you write your memoir you will understand, perhaps for the first time, the significance of your life through the language, images and emotions you craft from the memory.

Maureen Murdock

#19. Women's bodies are public domain, as evidenced clearly at the present time by the furor over abortion. Everyone has an opinion about what a woman should or should not do with her body.

Maureen Murdock