"It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company."

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Source : "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Ellen Malcolm : The Woman Behind All Those Women Candidates". Interview with Jacob Weisberg, articles.latimes.com. November 8, 1992.

Ellen Malcolm

#Years Quotes #Four Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.”
“I think there's a lot of mythos about what's required in acting. The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Of course I believe in hell. I have three brothers.”

Source : Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.121, Dell
“Women are like ovens. We need 5 to 15 minutes to heat up.”
“Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.”
“Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.”
“The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.”
“I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,â€™ she said. â€˜And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse â€” to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.â€™ Falling Angels”

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