"Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman.""

-- Patricia Schroeder

#Running Quotes #Witty Quotes

“I did sit down with Jared Polis (D-CO), and we had a good discussion about having the LGBT [Equality] Caucus pool some money and perhaps hire a staffer like some of the other caucuses do. That way we could hopefully be even more proactive on issues like ENDA, student non-discrimination and some of the other bills that are out thereitâ€™s just a matter of now figuring out â€” having seven of us total â€” how can we best move those forward either through legislation and working with the president to issue orders.”
“At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on paper, and trying to work really fast, is to see if I can expand the area of not being driven by taste. Not saying, "This looks good, I'll stop."”
“Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.”
“Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil", then God enters in me.”

Source : The Lantern Interview, April 5, 2001.
“True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.”
“Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.”
“No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence.”
“Men are natural warriors, but a woman in battle is truly bloodthirsty”

Source : Cate Tiernan (2007). “Book of Shadows: Book One”, p.98, Penguin

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