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“She [Beyonce]is probably the closest thing we've seen to Michael Jackson as far as having that determination and drive that I've ever seen.”

Determination Closest Beyonce

Author:Rodney Jerkins

“She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make anything.”

Writing Trying Feelings Passion Creativity Poet Convinced Enthusiasm Poetry Is Carols

Author:Edward Hirsch

“She [Carolyn Maloney] has there day in and day out for us and for women of this country and of the world, but she also never forgets the citizens of New York, and she's been, as you know a trailblazer for 9/11, commission for, you know, the financial district, etc.”

Knows World Country Forget New York Citizens Financial Etc Never Forget Trailblazers

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.”

Knows Whole Perfect Issues Economic Crisis Financial Financial Crisis Economic Crisis Whole Picture

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's dogged and will make sure the average woman and man is represented as well as making sure that our financial system stays afloat. In other words, she gets it and she has represented the financial district, but she also represents the average person and definitely the average woman.”

Men Wells Persons Whole Causes Issues Comfortable Men And Women Financial Average Chairs Committees Average Person Financial System Whole Picture

Author:Eleanor Smeal

“She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as either empress or mother.”

Wells Science Mother Literature Known Slave Chinese Drivers Biographies Well Known Militant Empresses

Author:Emilio G. Segre

“She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.”

Found Comedy Sweet Ultimate Cooks Inflation Propose Correcting Pretentiousness Rawness

Author:George Meredith

Source: The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative

“She [Dokic] left the court with a face as long as thunder.”

Long Faces Left Court Tennis Thunder

Author:John Inverdale

“She [Eleanor Roosevelt]wants a life of her own. Her grandmother could have been a painter. Her grandmother could have done so much more than she did with her life. And Eleanor Roosevelt decides she is going to do everything possible with her life. She's going to live a full life.”

Want Has Beens Done Painter Grandmother Could Have Been Eleanor Full Life

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“She [Eva Braun] was always complaining later on, "I know nothing that's going on." They [with Adolf Hitler] talked about other things: dogs, movies, music, Munich gossip, who was going with who, who was cheating on their spouses, who was drinking too much or trying to quit. All sorts of local things like that.”

Knows Trying Too Much Dog Drinking Complaining Quitting Locals Cheating Gossip Spouse Munich Drinking Too Much Always Complaining

Author:Gretl Braun

“She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.”

Shows Young Hours Half Known Modern Encouragement Excellence Fearful Modest Young Ladies

Author:Fanny Burney

Source: Evelina: or The history of a young lady's entrance into the world [by F. Burney].

“She [Gypsy Rose Lee] was a sophisticated self-satirist with a contagious delight in the comedy of sex. She was coy; she was sly; she always had a witty quip; she had an intensely dramatic presence.”

Self Sex Comedy Rose Delight Witty Dramatic Sophisticated Contagious Gypsy Sly Satirist Quip

Author:Karen Abbott

“She [Hillary Clinton] and Bill [Clinton] supported the NAFTA, the adoption of NAFTA that sent our jobs overseas, and they both supported Wall Street deregulation, which laid the groundwork for the disappearance of 9 million jobs and the theft of 5 million homes.”

Home Jobs Millions Streets Wall Bills Clinton Adoption Theft Disappearance Deregulation Groundwork Nafta

Author:Jill Stein

“She [Hillary Clinton] exudes leadership, confidence and - importantly - empathy, compassion, and understanding.”

Understanding Compassion Empathy Clinton

Author:Chrissy Teigen

“She [Hillary Clinton] had the courage to stand up.”

Clinton

Author:Jennifer Palmieri

“She [Hillary Clinton] is actually got the track record for doing the crazy things that Donald Trump talks about.”

Records Crazy Trump Clinton Track Crazy Things Track Record

Author:Jill Stein

“She [Hillary Clinton] is the epitome of the progressive - the secular progressive movement. And she counts on the fact that people are uninformed, the Alinsky Model, taking advantage of useful idiots.”

People Facts Movement Models Advantage Clinton Idiot Progressive Secular Epitome Taking Advantage Uninformed Progressive Movement

Author:Benjamin Carson

“She [Hillary Clinton] knew that's who he[Bill clinton] was before they got married. It would have been hypocritical for her to insist on monogamy.”

Has Beens Married Bills Clinton Hypocritical Monogamy

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“She [Hillary Clinton] knows the people well. I think there is - you know, also talking about breaking down barriers and talking about that, whether we`re talking about that in economic terms. I mean, she`s the only person who has been out there talking about white privilege and talking about sort of the intersectionality of some of these issues.”

People Thinking Knows Wells Mean Persons Has Beens Term White Talking Issues Economic Clinton Privilege Barriers Breaking Down White Privilege Intersectionality Breaking Down Barriers

Author:Killer Mike

“She [Hillary Clinton] says I know that this is the first time that one of our two major parties has ever nominated a woman, and that takes some getting used to even for me. And I think that she has to somehow figure out a way to talk about it. She doesn't like being a symbol, but in many ways, that's what tonight is about.”

Thinking Knows Way Firsts Two Used Party Figures Majors First Time Clinton Symbols Tonight

Author:Tamara Keith

“She [Hillary Clinton] used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.”

States Used United United States Clinton Including Related Territory Receiving Sophisticated Email Adversaries Work Related

Author:James Comey

“She [Hillary Clinton] wants to start an air war over Syria with Russia, a nuclear-armed power.”

Want War Air Clinton Nuclear Russia Syria

Author:Jill Stein

“She [Hillary Clinton] was extremely careless with handling national security information.If she were just an ordinary person, she would be denied a top security clearance because she has proved in her past acts that she is extremely careless in handling national security information.”

Ifs Persons Would Be Past Security Information Ordinary Clinton Denied National Security Careless Ordinary Person Clearance

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want this to sound like a taxicab driver, or a taxi in New York," or "I want this to sound like a telephone ringing." She would speak to musicians like that, and we really tuned into what she would want our music to be.”

Want Wanted Courses Speak Sound Heard New York Mets Elements Musician Decided Jazz Drivers Telephones Taxi Wayne

Author:Don Alias

“She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] rejected the [George] Bush administration's claim that it could indefinitely detain a United States citizen. She upheld the fundamental principle of judicial review over the exercise of government power.”

States Government Justice United Principles United States Citizens Exercise Claims Fundamentals Administration Reviews Rejected Judicial Fundamental Principles Sandra Day O Connor Judicial Review

Author:Patrick Leahy

“She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. She held that even this president is not above the law.”

Should War Remember Law Nations President Justice Rights Citizens Checks Blank Above The Law Sandra Day O Connor Blank Check

Author:Patrick Leahy

“She [Justice Sandra Day O'Connor], unlike, Judge Bork, did not think that being on the court would be an "intellectual feast," to quote Judge [Robert Heron] Bork.”

Thinking Would Be Justice Judging Intellectual Court Herons Sandra Day O Connor

Author:Joe Biden

“She [Kim Kardashian] was always my muse, now she's become other designers' muses.”

Designer Muse Kim

Author:Kanye West

“She [Mandy Ingber] brought yoga into my life. It completely changed my life . . . It's one of the most fun workouts I've ever had . . . So have fun and work hard because it will totally pay off.”

Hard Fun Pay Changed Hard Work Yoga Having Fun Workout Changed My Life

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“She [Marilyn Monroe] was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short.”

Reason Midget

Author:Clive James

“She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.”

Thinking Real Beautiful Destiny Ready Ordinary Cameras Cute

Author:Gail Levin

“She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas.”

Building Kings Married Mary Reign Spain Philip

Author:Jane Austen

Source: Love and Freindship: Top Essays

“She [me muse] feels most at home in autumn, nonetheless, she is glad of the other seasons and loves them all. Without the others she would be unable to feel most at home in autumn, besides which, she almost feels most at home in all of them.”

Feels Home Would Be And Love Seasons Glad Autumn Muse

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.”

Tennis Wrists Racket Monica

Author:Virginia Wade

“She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.”

Persons Moments Difficult Sick Actresses Contact Generous Monica

Author:Giovanna Cau

“She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.”

Mother Wonder Permission Daydreaming

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“She [my mother] had a will power that was undeniable. She went on to be with the Lord, she passed away but she lives through me.”

Mother Lord Will Power Passed Away

Author:Cory Hardrict

“She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.”

People Ifs Knows Heart Said Mother Desire Listening Ears Bottom Lasting True Words

Author:Amy Tan

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“She [my mother] said, "You are fiercely protective of your inventions because you are your fans." She helped me understand my own feelings. When someone has pulled the wool over my eyes, I feel that they have pulled the wool over the eyes of millions of fans around the world. She helped me to forgive. You can't force people to have the same world consciousness and awareness as you do.”

People World Feels Said Feelings Eye Force My Own Consciousness Millions Fans Awareness Mom Forgiving My Mom Invention Around The World Protective Wool

Author:Lady Gaga

“She [my mother] struggled, abusing alcohol for quite some time, and so we just kind of drifted apart. I went to college. But I dedicate the book to her because she is the true champion of the family. She kept our family together. She provided us with a roof over our head. She always worked.”

Kind Book Together Mother College Alcohol Our Family Champion Roof Family Together True Champion

Author:Hope Solo

“She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.”

World Reason Enough Mother Universe Force Our Lives Cry Judging Kissing Argument Chaos Corners Our World Brutes Martyrdom Brute Force Disapproving

Author:Nicole Krauss

“She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.”

Wife Excuse My Wife Over It Nappies

Author:Kevin Pietersen

“She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone canny fox outwit the hunter often enough to know that it matters little how many horses and men you have. All the wealth and weapons in the world will not catch the fox that refuses to be caught.”

Knows Men World Want Wells Littles Said Matter Enough Wealth Impossible Weapons Horse Caught Refuse Foxes Hunters Lone

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

Source: King Raven: 3-in-1 of Hood, Scarlet, and Tuck

“She [Pansy] pushed in next to Poppy so that she could see him around the guard's elbow. She was as tall as Poppy, with shining dark-brown hair and blue eyes. An utterly lovely girl, as all the princesses were, yet Oliver thought Petunia was far more beautiful.”

Eye Beautiful Girl Next Dark Hair Blue Shining Lovely Brown Tall Princess Blue Eyes Elbows Poppies Pansies Brown Hair Petunias Lovely Girl

Author:Jessica Day George

“She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"”

Men Together Answers Expression Hatred Dirty Pigs Scorn Filthy Sadie Contemptuous

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“She [Sarah Palin] by no - has any basic understanding of what post -traumatic stress disorder is, so I think it gives the rest of us an opportunity to have a real conversation about some of these problems.”

Thinking Giving Real Problem Opportunity Understanding Conversation Stress Posts Disorder Palin Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Real Conversation

Author:Jon Soltz

“She [Sarah Palin] doesn`t quite understand the issue [post-traumatic stress disorder] and, you know, if she`s going to continue to be in this space, hopefully she can do some homework and make some policy recommendation that are relevant to fixing the problem.”

Ifs Knows Problem Can Do Space Issues Policy Stress Hopefully Posts Disorder Relevant Homework Fixing Palin Recommendations Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Author:Jon Soltz

“She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.”

Differences Shots Tennis

Author:Jennifer Capriati

“She [Susan Lucci] was extraordinary. She wouldn't look at the scene until you walked in to rehearse it. It was amazing to me. That's the impression I got anyway.”

Looks Scene Extraordinary Impression

Author:Richard Masur

“She [Susan McDougal] thinks that it's very similar to what they did with her. Remember when she wouldn't cooperate and they got Jim McDougal to cooperate? Jim McDougal went from saying at his trial that she had the highest moral integrity.”

Thinking Highest Trials

Author:Mark Geragos

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