"I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard."

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Source : Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

Madeleine Albright

#Men Quotes #World Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.”
“...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfaction to sense.”
“I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it ...”
“I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.”
“I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.”

Source : Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
“Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?”
“Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.”

Source : Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.
“Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.”

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