Thatcher Ulrich Quotes

#1. History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#2. Too often, governments are quick to use excessive force and even pervert the course of justice to keep oil and gas flowing, forests logged, wild rivers dammed and minerals extracted. As the Global Witness study reveals, citizens are often killed, too - especially if they're poor and indigenous.

David Suzuki

#3. Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#4. If I'd thought she was uninterested, I never would have worried so much - the prospect of screwing something up is much more daunting than that of screwing nothing up. I definitely thought there was something there, and so there was something to lose, you see.

Adam Levin

#5. While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

Alan Cohen

#6. A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#7. Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we're really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway?

Nina LaCour

#8. The belief that you have no choice but to keep suffering through whatever frightens you is like believing you have to hold onto a scalding cup so that you won't spill your coffee!

Guy Finley

#9. I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

Tyra Banks

#10. You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.

Gilbert Melendez

#11. When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.

Deacon Jones

#12. I don't invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don't have charisma.

Barbara Corcoran

#13. Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.

Peter S. Prescott

#14. A well-behaved woman seldom makes history

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#15. An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#16. Nowadays the rights of one scumbag are considered far more important than the collective right of 29 others to be taught without being distracted.

Frank Chalk

#17. I can be someone's and still be my own.

Shel Silverstein

#18. The natal chart is like a seed and progressions are the unfolding in time of that into the plant it is to become. Transits, are like a daily weather report. In political astrology, these three factors have to be taken into account!

Alice O. Howell

#19. To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

#20. Hulu Plus: Good for criminals.

Joseph Fink