William Moulton Marston Quotes

#1. Wonder Woman didn't begin in 1941 when William Moulton Marston turned in his first script to Sheldon Mayer. Wonder Woman began on a winter day in 1904 when Margaret Sanger dug Olive Byrne out of a snowbank.

Jill Lepore

#2. Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world. - William Moulton Marston, March 1945

Jill Lepore

#3. I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

Tahar Rahim

#4. Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

Mark Twain

#5. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

William Moulton Marston

#6. The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.

William Moulton Marston

#7. I keenly desire to know God and to keep His ways.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. I think that in the blogosphere, the idea is to have the most controversial stuff up.

Monica

#9. I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

Nicole Richie

#10. Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

William Moulton Marston

#11. As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other foot and I have to trust everyone else - I have to trust the dancer. As I was trusted as a dancer, I trust my dancers.

Judith Jamison

#12. It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

William Moulton Marston

#13. In America, you break law. In Soviet Russia, law breaks you! In America, you watch Big Brother. In Soviet Russia, Big Brother watch you!

Yakov Smirnoff

#14. Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure them. When you put these two together, you have the typical male yearning that Wonder Woman satisfies.

William Moulton Marston

#15. Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.

William Moulton Marston

#16. If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

William Moulton Marston

#17. There is always a reason why, and I need to tell the stories.

Alber Elbaz

#18. The words on my heart are love, faith and hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. The truest kindness to any woman is to provide her with an opportunity for self-expression in some constructive field: to work, not at home with cook-stove and scrubbing brush, but outside, independently, in the world of men and affairs.

William Moulton Marston

#20. Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

William Moulton Marston

#21. They're going to drown me in milk--what a waste of good baby-food!

William Moulton Marston

#22. Sometimes words ruin everything.

Jesikah Sundin

#23. I think Americans such as Leviathan have done a lot to expand the sonic palette of black metal.

Colin Marston

#24. Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

William Moulton Marston

#25. Prepare far enough in advance, and just about anything is possible.

Ralph Marston

#26. But as I said to Dr. Rice following her testimony, and I think she appreciated it, we had our job to do and we did it best we could, trying to get answers to the important questions that the 9/11 Commission must answer.

Richard Ben-Veniste

#27. Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

William Moulton Marston

#28. Any woman looks innocent in a white veil

Nancy B. Brewer

#29. Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

William Moulton Marston

#30. I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

Jack White