Marcia Hines famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • 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.

  • But what is woman? Only one of nature's agreeable blunders.

  • It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  • Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

  • I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

  • As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

  • I take the opportunity each day offers.

  • I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.

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