Playdates Playgroups Quotes

#1. I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Although some people call me anti-feminist, I know I wasn't because Germaine Greer supported me.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#3. He liked being near that, that kind of brave and crazy.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. Our thoughts about the future go far toward creating it; our minds and hears are like filaments taht connect today to tomorrow, they are conduits for either the status quo or the emergence of different, hopefully more loving, possibilities. How we think and how we behave determine where we are going

Marianne Williamson

#5. Would it help if I stood around uselessly not knowing what to say?

Sarah Rees Brennan

#6. I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

Dolly Parton

#7. That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample.

Jeffrey Shallit

#8. In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'

Caitlin Moran

#9. All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala.

Lynne Truss

#10. My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

Shane Koyczan

#11. If you're 'stuck' right now, you're probably into fear. Get out of there. You've already looked both ways. Now cross the street, for heaven sake. The cars have long since gone. The coast is clear. Your only obstacle now is your own mind.

Neale Donald Walsch

#12. I'm like a blue-collar writer. I just sit down every day and I write.

Philip Kan Gotanda

#13. I understand, now, that your own identity, your past, has nothing to do with the way others see you. Being a hero isn't about someone else's definition. Not Abigail's and not Constance's. Not the Post's. Not even Claire's. Being a hero is about one thing: the way you see yourself.

Rebecca Serle

#14. Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

Franklin D. Roosevelt