Quotes of: Jane Keyword

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.

Leon Kass

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes.

Martha Beck

I fell in love with Africa and began helping people fix things there.

Martha Beck

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

Dave Navarro

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Albert Ellis

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

Alan Dundes

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Arthur Keith

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Arthur Keith

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

Ulrich Beck

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

Wade Davis

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

Wangari Maathai

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

Edward T. Hall

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.

Cathleen Schine

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

Eleanor Catton

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

Emily Giffin

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

Julie Burchill

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Margaret Mead

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Ruth Benedict

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

Sue Monk Kidd