Miriam Schapiro Quotes

#1. Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

Oprah Winfrey

#2. I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#3. I question the negative connotations of fabric, of ribbon, of lace. I turn these symbols of our imprisonment around.

Miriam Schapiro

#4. Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training.

Steve Ilg

#5. If you look good...you play good.

Deion Sanders

#6. For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Pain and suffering are like weights and pushups to the human spirit - adversity only makes it stronger.

Toni Sorenson

#8. Men think that sentiment is not valid; women think that sentiment is important.

Miriam Schapiro

#9. We really didn't have any literature telling us it was a good thing to be a woman artist. When I was trained, there were no precedents, and that was something to get really angry about.

Miriam Schapiro

#10. Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.

Miriam Schapiro

#11. When I look back on the years of excessive self-doubt, I wonder how I was able to make my paintings. In part, I managed to paint because I had a desire, as strong as the desire for food and sex, to push through, to make an image that signified.

Miriam Schapiro

#12. If you were to survey celebrated women, with every step toward real success there came a baby.

Miriam Schapiro

#13. Even God cannot make two times two not make four.

Hugo Grotius

#14. I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.

Ruud Gullit