Joan He Quotes

If you want to understand a person, peer at his heart through the window of his prejudices and assumptions. ~ Joan He

No night was perfect for treason, but this one came close. ~ Joan He

Equality is not the natural way of the world, whispered her father's voice. It must be nurtured. ~ Joan He

You can't possibly touch all the lives in this world. But if you can lift someone with your two hands, that is enough. ~ Joan He

Missing some people was like missing air. You did yourself no favors by wondering how you survived without them. ~ Joan He

Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding. ~ Joan D. Chittister

The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ. It proposes, year after year, to immerse us over and over again into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually we become what we say we are - followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God ~ Joan D. Chittister

Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don't eat pets. ~ Joan Jett

It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere. ~ Joan Chen

Every woman should wear make-up. It takes years off. I'm wearing lots of false eyelashes today, and to me, lipstick is the best cosmetic that exists. ~ Joan Collins

Writers are always selling somebody out. ~ Joan Didion

In pregnancy, there are two bodies, one inside the other. Two people live under one skin. When so much of life is dedicated to maintaining our integrity as distinct beings, this bodily tandem is an uncanny fact. ~ Joan Raphael-Leff

Being Jewish has always been important to me. I now have 6M tattooed on the inside of my left arm. It's only a half-inch, but every time anyone sees it, they're reminded of the six million who perished, and so am I. ~ Joan Rivers

Superficial people are those who simply go along without a question in the world-asking nothing, troubled by nothing, examining nothing. Whatever people around them do, they do, too. That's a sad and plastic life-routine and comfortable, maybe, but still sad. ~ Joan D. Chittister

That no one dies of migraine seems to someone deep in an attack as an ambiguous blessing. ~ Joan Didion

I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point. ~ Joan Didion

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. ~ Joan Didion

Everywhere you go you'll see highs and lows
These things are just part of life and its flows
It helps to understand that no place has it all
So we should cherish our blessings, large or small ~ Joan Marques

We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates. ~ Joan Collins

I mean, the country was founded on free enterprise. There's good things about it, and there's obviously bad things about it. ~ Joan Cusack

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven. ~ Joan Rivers

You know what we learned from living under the rule of Communism?"
"No."
"We learned to get mad. ~ Joan Bauer

I was having a field day down the Westend; my deep pockets were jingling and full of money nearly every day of the week. My brother's bird, Irene, wanted a fur coat, so I got her one by throwing a brick through the shop window and grabbing the coat off the shop dummy. Once I got to the bed-sit, I put the jacket on and waltzed in to the flat looking like Liberace, the two of them burst out laughing. Irene was like a tramp eating chips.
'Let's try it on, Jimmy, please?'
As she swooned around like Joan Collins with the fur coat on, she had the air of a council estate beauty queen about her. ~ Stephen Richards

When you look at your enemy in the face and all you feel is love, then you have achieved acceptance. ~ Joan Ambu

No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it. ~ Joan D. Chittister

My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together. ~ Joan Juliet Buck

I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring. ~ Joan Collins

When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.' ~ Joan Smalls

The intelligent woman adapts herself to fashion, but never to fad. She knows what is best for her, and her way of life, and sticks to it. She raises and lowers her hemline - with discretion - but she goes on with her timeless dresses made with the basic lines and fabrics that flatter HER, define HER life style. She's secure, and so she can be an elegant individual. ~ Joan Crawford

The difference between the butch and the queen is rooted in the system of male supremacy. Gay male camp is based not simply on the incongruous juxtaposition of femininity and maleness, but also on the reordering of particular power relationships inherent in our society's version of masculinity and femininity. The most obvious cause for the minimum development of camp among lesbians was that masculinity was not and still isn't as incongruous as femininity in twentieth century American culture and therefore not as easily used as a basis for humor. Concomitantly although individual women might be able to sexually objectify a man, women has a group did not have the social power to objectify men in general. Therefore, such objectification could never be the basis for a genre of humor with wide appeal. But why didn't camp develop and thrive within the lesbian community itself? Because the structures of oppression were such that lesbians never really escaped from male supremacy. In lesbians' actual struggles in the bars or out on the streets, authority was always male. For queens to confront male authority was a confrontation between two men, on some level equals. The queen was playing with male privilege, which was his by birthright. For women to confront male authority is to break all traditional training and roles. Without a solid organization of all women, this requires taking on a male identity, beating men at their own game. Passive resistance or the fist is most appropriate f ~ Joan Nestle

It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it. ~ Joan Lunden

Being in a state of grace is all very well, but I imagine even Joan of Arc had qualms when they lit the first brand. ~ Diana Gabaldon

Aunt Joan broke her hip a few years back. Don't get me wrong, she's still pretty damn fierce. Lightning fast with her cane, in fact. I've got the scars to prove it. ~ Victoria Schwab

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal. ~ Joan Baez

I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since. ~ Joan Bennett

Surely not, there's no way, not jail… Right? ~ Joan Rylen

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader. ~ Caitlin Flanagan

My way is to seize an image the moment it has formed in my mind, to trap it as a bird and to pin it at once to canvas. Afterward I start to tame it, to master it. I bring it under control and I develop it. ~ Joan Miro

But then Macon smiled at me. Just be yourself, Foster. That's the best thing in the world. ~ Joan Bauer

Better laid than never. ~ Joan Rivers

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care. ~ Joan Rivers

More than anyone else in the society, these men had apparently dreamed the dream and made it work. And what they did then was to build a place which seems to illustrate, as in a child's primer, that the production ethic led step by step to unhappiness, to restrictiveness, to entrapment in the mechanics of living. ~ Joan Didion

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films. ~ Joan Allen

[Elisabeth Woodville] doesn't take up arms to get her own way. But she is just as resolute as either Joan [of Arc] or Magaret [D'Anjou] about getting what she wants. What does she use instead? She uses sexuality.
You may ask, what is wrong with that? Women have been using their sexuality to get what they want from time immemorial (...). And if there is no other way to exert power, then to use your will to procure your will is probably a good idea.

However, if what you are implicitly promising (...) is not actually what you want to do, and in order to deliver you must separate yourself from yourself, then it does have its shortcomings as a negotiating tool. You pay a price; you separate yourself from your body. I say this from a woman's point of view. (...) And, as some of my young feminist friends have pointed out, you cannot change a corrupt system by using its own tools ~ Tina Packer

What I felt in each instance was sadness, loneliness (the loneliness of the abandoned child of whatever age), regret for time gone by, for things unsaid, for my inability to share or even in any real way to acknowledge, at the end, the pain and helplessness and physical humiliation they each endured. I understood the inevitability of each of their deaths. I had been expecting (fearing, dreading, anticipating) those deaths all my life. They remained, when they did occur, distanced, at a remove from the ongoing dailiness of my life. ~ Joan Didion

sometimes a kid has to act older than they are ~ Joan Bauer

If someone "chose" you, what does that tell you? Doesn't it tell you that you were available to be "chosen"? Doesn't it tell you, in the end, that there are only two people in the world? The one who "chose" you? And the other who didn't? ~ Joan Didion

As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime. ~ Joan Nestle

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock and roll. ~ Joan Jett

I lead a very conventional life. ~ Joan Didion