#person

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference. ↗

— Marc Morial

#contribution #difference #equality #freedom #greatest

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you. ↗

— Brian Moore

#figures #freshness #inside #longer #normal

I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I'm really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I'm totally sexy. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#girl #got #i #i think #jeans

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#discernment #emotionally #goes #going #into

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#drinking #drunk #eating #ignorant #indigestion

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. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#barbara #bush #first #had #issues

The portrait I do best is of the person I know best. ↗

— Nadar

#i #i do #know #person #portrait

I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me. ↗

— Frank Richard Stockton

#critics #fight #go #i #i think

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#appealing #been #call #come #i

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#chores #expected #family #had #i