Quotes of Adrienne Rich

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The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

- Adrienne Rich

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“ Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ”

- Alice Hoffman

“ Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna. ”

- Patrick Rothfuss

“ Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good. ”

- Susan Ee

“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”

- Anne Lamott

“ Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to help you grow. ”

- Unknown

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ”

- Martin Luther King

“ At the beginning, you need no support other than your pen and paper to write down the ideas that your brain is ready to supply you at any given time. ”

- Godspower Oparaugo

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley

“ Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ”

- Billy Graham

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher

“ The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. ”

- Karl Lagerfeld

“ A life lived in love will never be dull. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your selfesteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury