Elizabeth Riddell quotes

“Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.”
-- Elizabeth Riddell

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“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.90, UPNE

“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”

“Love is what enables us to bridge the gap of disappointment when others don't live up to the expectations we have of them.”

“If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.”

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

Source : Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 3 Nov. 1831) See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Franklin Roosevelt 6; Thoreau 16

“Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.”

“A busybody's work is never done.”

“But it's true, when you see some television, you carry it with you. It's like 90210. Tell me what young shows were being done then... We were thrilled about the ratings around the world.”

“THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.”

“I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.”