Nancy Ruth quotes

Change happens when people actively participate; lip service is what happens when people don't.
-- Nancy Ruth

#People #Lips #Lip Service

One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
-- Nancy Ruth

#Wine #Feminist #Risk

Establishment women just get mad. Activists change the laws.
-- Nancy Ruth

#Law #Mad #Establishment

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.

I am mistaken if a single epigram included fails to preserve at least some faint thrill of the emotion through which it had to pass before the Muse's lips let it fall, with however exquisite deliberation.