#she

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#believe #bother #feel #good #great

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#exclusively #field #first #flight #optimal

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#cared #die #goal #i #know

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre. ↗

— Leon Askin

#entertainment #field #go #interest #loved

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem. ↗

— Les Aspin

#bigger #even #frankly #go #gone

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? ↗

— Mary Astell

#alas #design #ever #get #her

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator. ↗

— Mary Astell

#any #creator #debases #her #self

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#asked #except #lack #met #minister

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?' ↗

— Sean Astin

#actually #am #books #bookstore #cow

My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate. ↗

— Victor Cruz

#biggest #book #dying #me #mom