Sharon > Sharon's Quotes

“Pretend to be a better person than you are, and in time the mask will draw you toward becoming that reality.”
― Lindsay Freeman, Good Lord, Deliver Us

“It’s just that I think people should be…well, a bit more honest. We don’t like being told half-truths. Or being lied to…People can tell, you know. They know when they’re being lied to. Politicians find that out – eventually.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, A Time of Love and Tartan

“Maybe that’s what we imagine it would be like to have a woman lead us. When women got into positions of power, they calibrated and recalibrated tenderness and strength, modulating and correcting. Power and love didn’t often live side by side. If one came in, the other might go.”
― Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

“Bewildering that you could harm a child without even knowing, thinking all the while you were being careful, conscientious. But it was a terrible feeling. More terrible than having”
― Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle

“Have you noticed how discourtesy and aggression are infecting our public life? What happened to gentleness?”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee