Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.

Lorene Scafaria

Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny.

Proverb

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Epictetus

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Bob Barr

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Gates McFadden

I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.

Cynthia Nixon

What greater gift than the love of a cat?

Charles Dickens

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Richard Powers

Dreams begin when you stop to pick up the penny - you realize the continual effort you must endure to have something worth obtaining.

Bernice Miller

Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.

Heather Bouwman

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Source Unknown

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

Naomi Wolf