Sallie Quotes

#1. (aspiring journalist to Carl Kolchak)
'Andy knows I want to be a reporter. Like you'
This took me by surprise. 'Sallie, my dear, nobody wants to be a reporter like me.

Elizabeth Massie

#2. Julia and Sallie and I all had new dresses. Do you want to hear about them? Julia's was cream satin and gold embroidery and she wore purple orchids. It was a DREAM and came from Paris, and cost a million dollars. Sallie's

Jean Webster

#3. I put the photo in an album called Mortifying Emotional Moments, and I title it Soggy Napkin Note. The last selfie I posted in there was of me on the day I graduated college. My perfectly made up face is happy ... relieved. I called that one: Sallie Mae Can Suck It.

Tarryn Fisher

#4. What lady do you think prettiest?" Said Sallie.
"Margaret."
"Which do you like the best?"
"Jo, of course."
"What silly questions you ask!" and Jo gave a disdainful shrug as the rest laughed at Laurie's matter-of-fact tone

Louisa May Alcott

#5. The real Sallie has returned and her portrayal of Mother has disappeared

Nancy B. Brewer

#6. When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

Peter Lynch

#7. The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives.

Sallie Tisdale

#8. Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope.

Sallie Tisdale

#9. You don't know what your voice sounds like until you speak.

Sallie Tisdale

#10. Nothing bad happens when women are in positions of power.

Sallie Krawcheck

#11. To write the essay is to be haunted by our own lies. No story is the whole story. Everything we know is shadowed by what we've missed, forgotten, or been afraid to see.

Sallie Tisdale

#12. By letting go of dieting, I free up mental and emotional room. I have more space, I can move. The pursuit of another, elusive body, the body someone else says I should have, is a terrible distraction, a side-tracking that might have lasted my whole life long. By letting myself go, I go places.

Sallie Tisdale

#13. Carnival: filth, trash, spangles, drunks, and Gods.

Sallie Ann Glassman

#14. Great praxis demands great piety.

Sallie McFague

#15. Even the ways we don't eat are based in class. The middle class don't eat in support groups. The poor can't afford not to eat at all. The rich hire someone to not eat with them in private.

Sallie Tisdale

#16. Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

Sallie Tisdale

#17. If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Sallie Krawcheck

#18. But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside.

Sallie Tisdale

#19. If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

Sallie Krawcheck

#20. Sexual acts are one of the primary means by which we can act out our inarticulated inner lives.

Sallie Tisdale

#21. Sex can be renounced
but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

Sallie Tisdale

#22. What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

Sallie Krawcheck

#23. This is not a meritocracy.

Sallie Tisdale

#24. You don't write. You get out of the way.

Sallie Tisdale

#25. Courage is the currency of integrity.

Sallie Haws

#26. By viewing images we cast onto outer reality as mirror reflections of inner reality, we come to know ourselves.

Sallie Nichols

#27. It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise.

Sallie Tisdale

#28. People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

Sallie Krawcheck

#29. It seems that these old cards were conceived deep in the guts of human experience, at the most profound level of the human psyche. It is to this level in ourselves that they will speak.

Sallie Nichols

#30. If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

Sallie Krawcheck

#31. Networking is the No. 1 unwritten rule of success in business.

Sallie Krawcheck

#32. How I became a better writer was that I kept writing.

Sallie Tisdale

#33. There is absolutely nothing that beats hard work.

Sallie Krawcheck

#34. The anger and shame of these women I hold in one hand, and the basin in the other. The distance between the two, the length I pace and try to measure, is the size of an abortion.

Sallie Tisdale

#35. Is biology destiny? And the answer is yes, sometimes it is. Women who have the fewest choices of all exercise their right to abortion the most.

Sallie Tisdale

#36. Then she took up her practice, not to prove her worth or to be seen, not in dignity or fear, but as though she were giving her whole life away as a gift to the world with every step.

Sallie Tisdale