It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side. . . and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.
If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption. ' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
You're just playing a role, whether it's a drama or a comedy. I find it really fun to sort of play opposite Uma.
There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.
Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally.