Rodale Quotes

#1. From my earliest memories, I loved the farm. My grandfather was a charter subscriber to Rodale's Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine and had a huge, well kept garden with an octagonal chicken house in the corner.

Joel Salatin

#2. Before her, with sharp blue eyes and perfectly coiffed blond hair, was Josephine Marie Elizabeth Cavendish, Her Grace, the Duchess of Durham, widow of the fifth duke, and aunt to the Cavendish siblings.
One did not call her Josie. Amelia had asked.

Maya Rodale

#3. In which they are alone now and there doesn't seem to be anyone around. Sometime

Maya Rodale

#4. Fear drove people to do things they'd never imagine themselves capable of just to avoid it.

Maya Rodale

#5. Did love really require grand gestures? Wasn't true love to be found in the little things, like holding one's hand or sitting comfortably around a gentle fire?

Maya Rodale

#6. Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis.

Maria Rodale

#7. I can tell you that the only ting in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.

Lucy Connors

#8. When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat to the status quo. It's also why this eternally popular and profitable genre has been scorned, ridiculed and dismissed.

Maya Rodale

#9. For the first time in my life I feel truly free, truly strong and comfortable with who I am and what I stand for. The future feels like an exciting adventure and I am a daring explorer ... who knows what I'll discover? But I know it's going to be fun!

Maria Rodale

#10. But fools wil persist in their madness, will they not?

Maya Rodale

#11. Of course we know that sexual promiscuity increases the likelihood of STIs, which is why we explore sexuality through romance - it's safer (and you don't have to shave your legs).

Maya Rodale

#12. Well, 'I'm sorry' is just a thing to say, you see. I'm trying not to be so apologetic and obsequious all the time. It's just such a habit ...

Maya Rodale

#13. What does wine do to men?"
"It makes them more foolish at a higher volume.

Maya Rodale

#14. I take it back. You're not stupid. But damn, you are insane.

Maya Rodale

#15. Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the world.

Maya Rodale

#16. Sometimes, you must play by the rules. If only so one can break them more effectively.

Maya Rodale

#17. He drank, as a man is wont to do when confronted with his innermost emotions, particularly ones pertaining to the heart.

Maya Rodale

#18. I am proud of all my ancestresses. They showed us that it's possible to do great things and still live a happy, pleasure filled life. So can I; so can you.

Maria Rodale

#19. If you fainted, I would catch you, my Lady Scandalous, he murmured.

Maya Rodale

#20. She knew he would like taking it off; he tended to prefer her dresses on the floor rather than on her person.

Maya Rodale

#21. Why do we keep believing that we can control nature,even as it banishes us repeatedly from our homes in search of new fertile ground?

Maria Rodale

#22. In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener.

Robert Rodale

#23. What are you reading?"
She replied without once taking her eyes off the page. "I am reading the sort of sentimental novel men dismiss as rubbish but could actually stand to learn a thing or two from."
"That's an awfully long title," he remarked dryly.

Maya Rodale

#24. The problem with longstanding friends
they felt utterly free to go too far and to enjoy every step they took over the line.

Maya Rodale

#25. There was something nice about a man who was absorbed by a good book.

Maya Rodale

#26. Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories are silly and unrealistic, we are telling young girls not to expect to be the heroines in their own real lives.

Maya Rodale

#27. He leaned against the door. Lord save her from men who leaned.

Maya Rodale

#28. A man didn't easily forget his last first kiss.

Maya Rodale

#29. The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.

Robert Rodale

#30. When will your wedding be?"
"We haven't set a date yet."
"What of your dress?"
"I'm sure I shall wear one.

Maya Rodale

#31. The kind of trouble that was the downfall of many men.

Maya Rodale

#32. Passion ought to be tempered with restraint.

Maya Rodale

#33. I cannot believe we had to read it in the paper - when we are your dearest school friends!" Lady Abernathy said sweetly.
"Yes, we were so close," Emma replied, just as sweetly. "Like England and China."
Lady Abernathy paused to puzzle over that.

Maya Rodale

#34. If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic,

Maria Rodale

#35. A picture began to emerge of a woman who possessed hope and optimism and gumption in spades in spite of wretched relatives and a world that never took much notice of her.

Maya Rodale

#36. Anger will give you strength, where fear will make you weak.

Maya Rodale

#37. An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.

Maya Rodale

#38. Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts of troubles.

Maya Rodale

#39. Like the world had met her low expectations.

Maya Rodale

#40. Wealthy old woman + devious imagination - restraint = Aunt Agatha

Maya Rodale

#41. I'm thinking, he said. To bed or not to bed his wife? That was the question.

Maya Rodale

#42. I hardly have any names on my dance card," Emma said, slightly despairing. This was not how she imagined her debut.
"There are just four names on mine," Olivia said. "But I think the gentlemen only agreed to escape my mother. I really can't blame them.

Maya Rodale

#43. She was beautiful and had a way of manipulating a man with a terrifying combination of tears and seductive smiles.

Maya Rodale