Quotes About Nettie

#1. Nettie, it quickly developed, had no gift for mothering. Many women have no gift for it. They mimic the recalled gestures and mannerisms of the women they've been trained to become and hope for the best.

Vivian Gornick

#2. Lucy: I don't understand men.
Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.

Sabrina Jeffries

#3. You got to fight them, Celie, she say. I can't do it for you.
You got to fight them for yourself.
I don't say nothing. I think bout Nettie, dead. She fight, she run away. What good it do? I don't fight, I stay where I'm told. But I'm alive.

Alice Walker

#4. But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he?

Alice Walker

#5. And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.

Alice Walker

#6. Divination is a mirror, reflecting what is here and here," Kezia would tell her, pointing to Nettie's heart and head. Nettie nodded like a solemn student.

"Whatever the cards show you, always trust the words that well inside you. The truth is waiting to be heard. Never doubt it.

Gwendolyn Womack

#7. Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.

Alice Walker

#8. People fear monsters. Monsters fear the Cannibal Owl." Nettie

Lila Bowen

#9. Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.

Lila Bowen

#10. When you're winning - you don't need any friends. When you're losing - you don't have any friends anyway.

Woody Hayes

#11. If it wasn't for the elderly we wouldn't be were we are today.

Nettie Febus

#12. Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

Charles Dickens

#13. In my groggy frame of mind, he looks yummy.

E.L. James

#14. I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

Eminem

#15. Today, Mr. Darcy is a vampire.

Orson Scott Card

#16. 180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

Emily Procter

#17. If we don't take pitcures, you'll forget about me. You'll forget I even existed.

Yun Kouga

#18. How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

Franz Grillparzer

#19. Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

Kamala Harris

#20. Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.

Barbara Demick

#21. Live from the heart of yourself

Oprah Winfrey

#22. Will you ever bring a better gift for the world
than the breathing respect that you carry
wherever you go right now?

William Stafford

#23. Women have been interesting forever.

Rashida Jones