Quotes by Women Journalists

It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

In Islam, there is no difference between the state and the religion. The religion is the state, the state is the religion.

Brigitte Gabriel

The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Leaks have happened before. They are not new. But the industrial scale of leaking made possible through the digitisation of information and the ability to communicate instantly across the globe - that is new. If it is to be revolutionary, however, we need a model for a new type of politics.

Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group.

Sometimes gossip is by far the most reliable source of information about yourself and all your friends, especially in Manhattan. I always say why trust myself when gossip can tell moi the real truth about moi?

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

I await thee as hills wait the morning,
I desire thee as eagles the storm...

Constance Lindsay Skinner

Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.

Dorothy B. Hughes

Russian activists and journalists who get enough death threats and take them sufficiently seriously to hire bodyguards are also usually careful about what they ingest. Soon after the chess champion Garry Kasparov quit the sport to go into politics full time, in 2004, he hired a team of eight bodyguards, who not only accompanied him everywhere but also carried drinking water and food for Kasparov to eat at meals shared in public. Three years ago, Kasparov told me that what he liked most about foreign travel was being able to shed his bodyguards for a while. A year after that, threats drove him to leave Russia permanently.

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word 'human'.

Suzanne La Follette

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight!

Elizabeth Chase Allen

Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Harriet Van Horne

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Life may not be fair, but when you have someone to believe in, life can be managed, and sometimes, even miraculous.

In life, the trick is just to do what's necessary to keep on living.

Bebe Moore Campbell

One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'

The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

They ain't no feelin' in the world like takin' on somebody wilted and near bout gone, and you do what you can, and then all a-sudden the pore thang starts to put out new growth and git well.

Olive Ann Burns

It's not about hair, it's about being you—whether that's something the industry has seen before and accepts or not.

Following the publication of my book on the Nobel Laureates in Economics (Horn, 2009), I was often asked, Of these ten outstanding economists, who was the one that impressed you most? Who left the greatest mark on you? Of course I had benefited greatly from all the conversations. All of them, without exception, were full of theoretical and human insights. Yet, the one that stands out in my mind was the conversation with James McGill Buchanan.

For most of my life I have known how to control my feelings. If you can control your feelings, you can pretty much control your whole world. It's amazingly effective.

Decca Aitkenhead

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.