Quotes about "Success & Achievement"

Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy. ”

I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted. ”

Wrestling introduced me to the idea that my body has a purpose besides trying to look five years younger for the first time. ”

Wrestling was the first time I thought, 'My leg is the thing that functions in this way to do this move, to get from A to B.' Instead of, like, 'My body's purpose is to suck it in so the male showrunner thinks it's attractive.' ”

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. ”

I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices. ”

My dreams of taking the West End by storm as a dancer flickered but then faded; my father’s ambition to see me in a steady office job was tried and abandoned. But I had won a national speaking award, had stood for election to the local council, had begun to travel and took a job working for the Labour Party." ”

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession. ”

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. ”

My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank. ”