Rebecca Quotes

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.

Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Mum always taught us that compassion and kindness were the most important things in life, that it was better to be kind than right.

Lead by inspiration, not intimidation.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.

Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in that song.

Questions [about our healthcare system] are not hard because the answers are complicated, they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.

My longest love affair: with a book.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism - obedience and love are.

Breastfeeding is the very best diet I've been on.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

I walk wherever my errands take me.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.