Maggie Scarf quotes

“Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.”
-- Maggie Scarf

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“Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.”
-- Maggie Scarf

Source : Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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“Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.”
-- Maggie Scarf

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“Subtle and literate, The Dance of Intimacy is like a long, revealing conversation with a wise and compassionate friend.”
-- Maggie Scarf

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“Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.”
-- Maggie Scarf

Source : Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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“the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense that they're arriving there. Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people.”
-- Maggie Scarf

Source : Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books

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“If you look around Brazil you see pregnant women everywhere. Here you don't see that as much. There the only thing they do is babies, babies, babies! Especially the poor families.”

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”

“In the early stages of a pregnancy, the Government cannot intervene with a woman's right to choose. That is it, plain and simple. Guess what. We are not going to be big brother or sister, as the case may be. We are going to allow a woman, her doctor, and her God to make that decision.”

“The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.”

“I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.”

“Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.”

“I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"”

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“Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1903). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom ...”

“Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.”

“When you have trust and you get that trust in place throughout the company, people are empowered — people are free.”