C. Elizabeth Quotes

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be seen in that light.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Now is the time for guts and guile.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

One un-vents something; one unearths it; one digs it up; one runs it down in whatever recesses of the eternal consciousness it has gone to ground.

There is no escape if love is not there

I was a total bad girl growing up.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

The truth is, I feel beyond sad. I feel empty. Numb.

I only want people around me who can do the impossible.

Good humor, like the jaundice, makes every one of its own complexion.

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

My best advice for someone considering adopting a pet is to take the time to really consider your lifestyle, home environment and personal preferences.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

I would love to date a chef. I'd probably get really fat, but I don't care.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

When people say, 'She's got everything', I've got one answer - I haven't had tomorrow.

One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and give me my childhood again!

Even more then long hours in the kitchen, fine meals require ingenious organization and experience which is a pleasure to acquire.

When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is.

The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

As the cherub is to the angel, so the cat is to the tiger.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.