Barbara Quotes

California's 74-year-old Senator Barbara Boxer announced she will not run for re-election in 2016. When I saw the headline '74-Year-Old Boxer,' I assumed they were making another 'Rocky' movie.

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized it or not, whether it was Barbara Bush or Nancy Reagan or whoever.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

Time moves on but Barbara Hershey's doing good and John Heard, they're all people working. I know there were a couple of kids in that movie who I used who have been in other movies since Beaches.

I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.

Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next

When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!

...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

Other than the love of God

Give yourself permission to stop existing and start growing. We all need more than work for self-actualization. Remember that interests and hobbies aren’t frivolous

Somehow human authority is never enough

Why must some of us deliberate between brands of toothpaste while others deliberate between damp dirt and bone dust to quiet the fire of an empty stomach lining?

Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.

Hey, you’re not supposed to find our magnificent organs amusing.

The higher up I hold it, the less painful the hot wax.”…“Try hanging off the ceiling and dropping it from there.

That should give him time for another wank. It was a good job masturbating didn’t make you go blind.

Oh God, can I keep you? You don’t need batteries, do you?

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.

Outside in the sun the Holy Mother stood on her pedestal in the garden, sorry but unsympathetic. The usual position of mothers.

He knows nothing

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)

A historian cannot pick and choose his facts

Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot