The women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
There are no limits to what you can accomplish, except the limits you place on your own thinking.
An amazing breathlessness arises because we fill our lives with emptiness and Facebook. In a discussion about the empty calories of Facebook, someone close to me said with great seriousness: “I have 190 friends on Facebook.” Then I replied: “Yes, but hardly one of them will pick up your coffin the day you leave here.” Why not use the time for some fewer and real friends in the real world.
Throughout my life, the message and teachings of Christ have been my guide and in them I find hope. It is my heartfelt prayer that you will continue to be sustained by your faith in times of trial and encouraged by hope in times of despair.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
I’m attracted to myths.
All warfare is based on deception.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
There’s one thing worse than being boring. It is to be immoral
The longer I stay at home, the more homeless I look.
You may have had fun at the time teasing, but in fact it wasn’t much fun to be teased. But I thank you, somewhere, for having done it, because it made me take up something that I love to this day – and that no one, then or now, can take me away from.
It’s – sorry my French – some damn nonsense. There are certainly also pig farmers and cattle farmers who go in clean boots and clothes. You will probably find most of them, so that is why it is nonsense.
When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving, him a liar: you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
I’ve never tried that before, so I can probably do it well!
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
I am self-created. I always wanted to make myself a better person because I wasn’t educated. But that was my dream – to have class.
If a man says you’re ugly, he’s just mean. If a woman says you’re ugly, she’s just jealous. If a kid says you’re ugly, you’re ugly.
No matter how many grains of gold I serve you, you keep eating oatmeal, and I can’t become my problem.
We may hold different points of view but it is in times of stress and difficulty that we most need to remember that we have much more in common than there is dividing us.
I’ve never given myself a lot of credit because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself – when I got divorced and took control of my life.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
Grief is the price we pay for love.