Accepting a government grant with its accompanying rules is like marrying a girl and finding out her entire family is moving in with you before the honeymoon.
Inspiring Women Empowerment Quotes to Motivate and Empower Women Everywhere - page 100
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough
I dedicate the love, enthusiasm, welcome and respect given to me to the feet of 125 crore children of Mother India.
This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?
Derek Landy
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Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
Jerry Rubin
Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an accepted status — like geisha girls do
Helen Fielding
People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.
Tenley Albright
Absence really can make the heart grow fonder, even when the [man's] feet wander.
Amy Dickinson
Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
Rudolph Rummel
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.
Lena Dunham
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.
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Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.