Barbara Quotes

Show me a wife who doesn't offer advice and I'll show you one who doesn't care very much.

Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.

New York was where we wanted to live when we were finally grown up, and drink martinis and stay out past bedtime.

True ownership of anything requires time.

If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.

Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

I've never had a really creative idea sitting at my desk. All the big ideas that made a difference happened when I was playing outside.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Insecurity is a wonderful motivator.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

Sometimes grown ups don't act their right old age

Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.

The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body.

Throughout her career, Ana Barbara has cultivated endless hits; each of her albums was a true musical surprise... this is why today she is honored with the title of Queen of Grupero.

Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

Power is sexy, not simply in its own right, but because it inspires self-confidence in its owner and a shiver of subservience on the part of those who approach it.

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

The power of publicity is more important than advertising.

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

There should be no censorship of mail.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians.

Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears.

I've seen innovation come from something as simple as a resourceful multibillionaire who wanted to make even more money.

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

There is no 'cat language.' Painful as it is for us to admit, they don't need one!