Deborra-Lee Furness famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

  • If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

  • Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  • If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

  • I want in all cases to do right.

  • Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

  • Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.

  • First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

  • In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

  • I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.