Lois Gould quotes

“My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.”
-- Lois Gould

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“[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.”
-- Lois Gould

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“Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.”
-- Lois Gould

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“Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period.”
-- Lois Gould

Source : Lois Gould (1970). “Such good friends”, Random House Trade

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“India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.”

“The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.”

“Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.”

“All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.”

“I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.”

“Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.”

“A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.”

“The Bagshaws aren't boys. They're bombs with very colorful fuses.”

“The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.”

“When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it next week because we are Afghans. That's the spirit.”

Source : "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.