Barbara Quotes
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own entreaties to body and soul.
You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.
This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.
Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.
Find your center and stay there. It will allow you to live your life to its maximum.
A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.
From beginning to end this is a wet and blood smeared voyage, this begetting and birthing and moving away.
Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
I've always thought the most patriotic thing you could do in a democracy is to speak the truth as you see it. And that's what we're supposed to be about in America. Freedom of speech.
The point is that what we want, Democrats, and what we've always wanted, is to make abortion safe, legal, and rare.
When you have a president-elect who calls the press every name in the book, I think it's a warning shot across the bow, and you go back to what you learn when you were a child.
Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he's just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets - you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It's scary.
I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don't lose that.
I've always thought of myself as a catalyst. Look, it's not without its perils. Ann Coulter called me "learning disabled." The things people write about me.
The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.
I've faced the grief, I've faced the anger, and I'm ready to keep up the fight because America is worth fighting for.
I've gone through so many of these stages of defeat and loss and victory, the ups and downs, that I know how to handle it.
Nothing is alarmist with Donald Trump because you don't really know what he's going to do.
I think we have to stop using the expression "alt-right." It's ridiculous. It's racist, fascist, nationalist.
There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
I think we need to get back to truth-based news. It won't be easy, but we better do it because otherwise we're not acting on information.
If something is opinion, put it in the opinion section: Don't put it in the facts section.