Barbara Quotes

Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.

My left hand is my thinking hand (image), my right hand my doing hand (sequence).

Let us not become the evil that we deplore.

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.

The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

I don't even like clowns. Clowns are not normal people.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

Good people are always so sure they're right.

Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues "Democrat, Republican, and Independent" agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

Perhaps, one of our greatest challenges as a nation, as a people, as human beings making sure that our grandkids can live on this Earth.

Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.

Dogs can be made to feel guilty about anything, including the sins of their owners. Cats refuse to take the blame for anything - including their own sins.

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

It doesn't matter where anybody lives, we're all here.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

The most effective way to build a brand is not by spending millions in advertising, but by finding a clever way to keep your name in the press.

Body experience... is the centre of creation.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

Apocalypse can mean the unveiling of the deeper self of humanity.

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure.

As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

[On a dull party:] It was a fête worse than death.

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.

The most important things in your home are people.

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

Priceless things matter not for their value, but because they offer us an enduring reminder of stability and permanence.

Irreverence is a declaration of independence.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.