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I love being with someone, taking care of someone. — Marian Seldes

Education is a precondition to survival in America today. — Marian Wright Edelman

As you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs ... — Marian Keyes

This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated. — Marian Burros

I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves. — Marian Keyes

Prayer begins where human capacity ends. — Marian Anderson

You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story. — Marian Keyes

The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt. — Marian Burros

Love and kindness go hand in hand. — Marian Keyes

Let all children come unto me. — Marian Wright Edelman

I'm not a good tourist. I don't like walking around and looking at things. I like being in a city and working and finding out how other people live. — Marian Seldes

Everyone has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. — Marian Anderson

The brain is a three pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light-years across. — Marian Diamond

Optimism can be relearnt. — Marian Keyes

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? — Marian Wright Edelman

Do I mind being called a chick-lit writer? Well, it's not the worst thing that could happen. — Marian Keyes

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore. — Marian Wright Edelman

sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It — Marian Keyes

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser. — Marian Keyes

Perhaps you've only grown up when you can bear not being understood. — Marian Gold

You really can change the world if you care enough. — Marian Wright Edelman

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up. — Marian Keyes

As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great. — Marian McPartland

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future. — Marian Wright Edelman

I try to be a person of faith. — Marian Wright Edelman

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life. — Marian Wright Edelman

You just do it one step at a time. — Marian Wright Edelman

Service is what life is all about. — Marian Wright Edelman

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. — Marian Wright Edelman

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman

Don't just dream about grandiose acts of doing good. Every day do small ones, that add up over time to positive patterns. — Marian Wright Edelman

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability. — Marian Engel

Remember that lettuce doesn't grow on a spruce; and it also doesn't rhyme with it. — Jakub Marian

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future. — Marian Wright Edelman

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters. — Marian Wright Edelman

A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self. — Marian Sandmaier

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to. — Marian Wright Edelman

It never rains but it damn well pours and I was afraid I'd be washed away in the deluge. — Marian Keyes

Slasher Hathaway marks his territory by spending money. He might as well have pissed on her. It means nothing. — Marian Keyes

I have tried and failed to lead a conventional life. When I try to be like other people, I fall out of bed. — Marian Engel

I almost never go to the theatre without seeing someone I've taught or known at Juilliard. — Marian Seldes

I wanted to show her how disgusted I was by not eating a thing, but a chocolate cookie is a chocolate cookie. — Marian Keyes

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it. — Marian Engel

Hope is the best contraceptive. — Marian Wright Edelman

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list. — Marian Wright Edelman

I need to work outside government, on my own. — Marian Wright Edelman

Desserts. I ordered banoffee pie. — Marian Keyes

Mum insists on calling Sat Nav "the Talking Map," like she's a medieval peasant who believes in witchcraft. — Marian Keyes

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe. — Marian Keyes

Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right. — Marian Keyes

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain. — Marian Keyes

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them. — Marian Wright Edelman

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. — Marian Wright Edelman

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models. — Marian Wright Edelman

It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and put ourselves at the top of our commitment list. — Marian Wright Edelman

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.' — Marian Seldes

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation. — Marian Wright Edelman

Ah, now my pet, you'll be callin' me, Ma. Me gynecologist calls me Mrs. McClung," Charlie's mother instructed a blushing Marian. From "A Good Girl — Mary Anne Edwards

Boy, I'm just quietly doing my thing, and I hope they'll look around and get my record out. — Marian McPartland

Rough as a badger's arse — Marian Keyes

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life. — Kami Garcia

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. — Marian Keyes

Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly, — Marian Phair

No one knows how strong they are until they have to be. — Marian Keyes

Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff? — Marian Keyes

I'm proud of what I write and feel endorsed by my readers. — Marian Keyes

I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around. — Marian Keyes

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them. — Marian Wright Edelman

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame. — Marian McPartland

By the way, I got a Grammy, which was a big thrill. — Marian McPartland

Holland seems like a quaint toy. — Marian Hooper Adams

Inspiration is cross-pollinating. — Marian Bantjes

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. — Marian Wright Edelman

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting. — Marian Wright Edelman

A person has to be busy to be alive. — Marian Anderson

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. — Marian Wright Edelman

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person I've worked with has helped me. — Marian Seldes

I went grey at 12, my eyesight went at 17. I've been a crock from very early on. — Marian Keyes

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot. — Marian Keyes

I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice. — Marian Keyes

Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right. — Marian Wright Edelman

I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes. — Marian Keyes

Some people can make their ears move - it's their party trick. Don't feel bad if you can't do it. Just find yourself another party trick. — Marian Keyes

Political correctness is a minefield — Marian Keyes

When I began to act, I was about 6 years old. Everything you learned, every period of history you studied, you did a play about it. — Marian Seldes

The glory of victory softens our view of past frailties. — Marian Deegan

Dreaming. But I know it's real." "When I woke up this morning — Marian Keyes

Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts. — Marian McPartland

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully. — Marian Seldes

I still get awful depression. It's who I am. — Marian Keyes

I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better. — Marian Keyes

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether. — Marian Anderson

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me. — Marian Keyes

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery. — Marian Engel

Is it not strange,' she said, 'that a little cruelty makes them love me all the more? — Marian Keyes

Talk is cheap, but look at how people behave, not at what they say. — Marian Keyes

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer. — Marian Wright Edelman

The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them. — Marian Keyes

Guilt is a self-indulgence. — Marian Keyes

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland. — Marian Burros