Pastoral Resources

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

Earlier feminists were almost universally pro-choice and have dominated political debate until now. Having access to abortion was viewed as the only way women could have full equality with men, who, until recently, couldn't get pregnant.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

Balls are to men what purses are to women.

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.