Wendy Shalit Quotes

#1. It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

Henry Ford

#2. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit. Conversely, a society which respected modesty, or what now goes by "hang-ups", was one in which men were obligated.

Wendy Shalit

#3. If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?

Wendy Shalit

#4. Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

Wendy Shalit

#5. Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.

Alphonse Karr

#6. In the '60s not everybody was wearing flowers in their hair and flowing caftans.

Baz Luhrmann

#7. The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.

Wendy Shalit

#8. Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

Thomas Otway

#9. Cruelty might be very human and very cultural, but it is not acceptable and it is not an option.

Jodie Foster

#10. I know I won't be there for every part of your life, but I'd like you to be there for every part of mine. I do.

Lia Habel

#11. After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.

Wendy Shalit

#12. They both began to giggle and then they fell into a side splitting round of laughter, the cleansing, complete sort of laughter only a mother and daughter can share.

Karen Kingsbury

#13. Misperceiving that there is one correct choice is a common mistake. Coming to understand that there are usually a few good choices
and then there's the one you pick, commit to, and make great
is the best way to make flexible, optimal, good decisions in life.

Katie Couric

#14. Love. It's the only thing to have faith in ... Or the moon. Soemthing that turns up every day when you cant. The sun. The moon. Anything. You have to have faith in something.

Sarah Winman

#15. Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy.

Wendy Shalit

#16. Any man who had to carry a child would cave in around month two.

Johnny Depp

#17. NINA IS A FREAKY BEAST, OF EVERYBODY LIKED THE LEAST, WE ALL HATE HER VERY MUCH, WE'D ALL EAT HER UP FOR LUNCH! MUNCH! MUNCH!

Allie Peterson

#18. It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.

William Shakespeare

#19. By not having sex before marriage, you are insisting on your right to take these things seriously, when many around you do not seem to. By reserving a part of you for someone else, you are insisting on your right to keep something sacred.

Wendy Shalit