Barbara Havers Quotes

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

She'd liked things better when everything had been controlled simply by on and off switches and when push-button telephone and telly remotes were as far as technology had gone. Make a few calls and put the burden of information searching on someone else. That was the ticket. Now, however, things were different. It was the investigator's mental shoe leather that got worn down, not the real thing. ~ Elizabeth George

If women are choosing not to run the world, it's partly because men are choosing not to run the washer and dryer. ~ Barbara Kellerman

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. ~ Barbara Taylor Bradford

I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job. ~ Barbara Billingsley

Nicole craved sweets. Her list included peach pie, rhubarb pie, and pumpkin pie, all of which would be on hand the following week for the Fourth of July cookout on the bluff, so she knew Quinnie cooks would have their recipe cards nearby. In addition to pies, she wanted recipes for blueberry cobbler, apple crisp, molasses Indian pudding, Isobel Skane's chocolate almond candy, and, of course, Melissa Parker's marble macadamia brownies. ~ Barbara Delinsky

Nonviolent actions are by their nature androgynous. In them the two impulses that have long been treated as distinct, 'masculine' and 'feminine,' the impulse of self-assertion and the impulse of sympathy, are clearly joined; the very genius of nonviolence, in fact, is that it demonstrates them to be indivisible, and so restores human community ... ~ Barbara Deming

When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you. ~ Barbara Windsor

Alice wonders if other women in the middle of the night have begun to resent their Formica. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there. ~ Barbara Johnson

Blanche stared at Emmeline's door for a few moments, bristling with the desire to knock and trying to conquer her natural inclination to defy the voice of authority. It was one of the reasons she had not lasted in the waitressing, telephone sales, clerking, and typing jobs she'd tried over the years. ~ Barbara Neely

The play is so close to the reality ... It comes out of the heart. ~ Barbara Williams

It is not as mirrors reflect us but, rather, as our dreams do, that movies most truly reveal the times. If the dreams we have been dreaming provide a sad picture of us, it should be remembered that - like that first book of Dante's Comedy - they show forth only one region of the psyche. Through them we can read with a peculiar accuracy the fears and confusions that assail us - we can read, in caricature, the Hell in which we are bound. But we cannot read the best hopes of the time. ~ Barbara Deming

It lasted just a moment, whatever that is. One held breath? An ant's afternoon? It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it's been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure. ~ Barbara Hepworth

For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job. ~ Barbara Park

Spring is made of solid, fourteen-karat gratitude, the reward for the long wait. Every religious tradition from the northern hemisphere honors some form of April hallelujah, for this is the season of exquisite redemption, a slam-bang return to joy after a season of cold second thoughts. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Successful women don't sleep until noon. ~ Barbara Taylor Bradford

With all the safety mechanisms in place to make cribs safer, still more infants die alone in cribs than in the family bed; yet, there has never been an outcry to ban cribs. ~ Barbara Nicholson

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I'd been raised on excuses. But the Marine Corps taught me that excuses don't matter. That excuses--even when prettied up as reasons--are just a way to avoid doing what needs doing. ~ Barbara Nickless

Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner. ~ Barbara Mandrell

carried a nosegay of summer flowers. Winston ~ Barbara Taylor Bradford

the kind. He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one ~ Barbara Delinsky

Unfortunately, there isn't a rewind button to life. ~ Barbara Brooke

Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

A novel works it's magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as life. It's as detailed as life. It requires you, the reader, to fill in an outline of words with vivid pictures drawn subconsciously from your own life, so that the story feels more personal than the sets designed by someone else and handed over via TV or movies. Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. It's why you might find yourself crying, even if you aren't the crying kind. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

She is not a bulldog, only a woman pressed into the shape of a small jar, possibly attempting to dance in there. It shows in the way she places a seashell on a window sill, a red-painted chair in the corner: she is practiced in the art of creating a still life and taking up residence inside it. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. ~ Barbara Holland

We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. ~ Barbara Jordan

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves. ~ Barbara Tuchman

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries. ~ Barbara Corcoran

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival. ~ Barbara Mikulski

Everyone in yuppie-land - airports, for example - looks like a nursing baby these days, inseparable from their plastic bottles of water. Here, however, I sweat without replacement or pause, not in individual drops but in continuous sheets of fluid soaking through my polo shirt, pouring down the backs of my legs ... Working my way through the living room(s), I wonder if Mrs. W. will ever have occasion to realize that every single doodad and objet through which she expresses her unique, individual self is, from another vantage point, only an obstacle between some thirsty person and a glass of water. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich

Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world. ~ Barbara Marx Hubbard

You're lucky to have such great friends," Joey said quietly. "Luck has nothing to do with it, dearie. We decided to become friends and to stay friends, through thick and thin, warts and all. ~ Barbara J. Zitwer

It's normal to sit down with a few negative feelings about beginning your work. It's how you handle those feelings that matters. ~ Barbara Oakley

The paparazzi terrify and torment people and endanger people and it's really unpleasant. ~ Barbara Broccoli

It was manifest that a malady of such horrors, stenches, and agonies, and especially one bringing the dismal despair that settled upon its victims before they died, was not a plague "natural" to mankind but "a chastisement from Heaven. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, or the losses themselves, take away your ability to enjoy the wonderful life that is yours. ~ Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

I write every moment that is humanly possible. I write every day and every night. The only discipline I lack is the discipline is to quit. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art? ~ Barbara Kruger