Bailey Basham > Bailey's Quotes

“Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?”
― Margaret atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it down without choking on it.

Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe.

Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better?

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Women tell you more about the world. Men only tell you about themselves.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“We could not 'break' nature if we spent one million years trying. This planet is a speck, and we are specks on a speck. But our a little habitat is fragile, and we cannot live without it.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“I can choose to speak about goodness and beauty even when my inner eye still looks for someone to accuse or something to call ugly.”
― Hillary Clinton

“Donald Trump didn’t invent sexism, and its impact on our politics goes far beyond this one election. It’s like a planet that astronomers haven’t precisely located yet but know exists because they can see its impact on other planets’ orbits and gravities. Sexism exerts its pull on our politics and our society every day, in ways both subtle and crystal clear.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive audience, and I’ve never felt like the American electorate was receptive to this one. I wish so badly we were a country where candidate who said, ‘ my story is the story of a life shaped by and devoted to the movement for women’s liberation’ would be cheered, not jeered. But that’s not who we are. Not yet.”
― Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton's Guide to Pokemon Go: Foreword by Donald Trump

“Mary Wollstonecraft [said] 225 years ago, ‘I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“We need our politics to resemble our people. On the people who run our cities, states, and country overwhelmingly look a certain way (say, white and male) and overwhelmingly have a shared background (wealthy, privileged) we end up with laws and policies that don’t come close to addressing the realities of Americans lives. And since that’s a basic requirement of government, it’s a pretty big things to get wrong. In other words, representation matters.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“How to make real change: step by step, year by year, sometimes even door by door...you need to change hearts AND change laws.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“A society should be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable among us, especially children, and that the measure of our success should be how many kids climb out of poverty, get a good education, and receive the love and support to they deserve.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Our democracy has built-in defenses that keep us strong and healthy, including the checks and balances written into our Constitution. Our Founding Fathers believed that one of the most important defenses would be an informed citizenry that could make sound judgments based on facts and reason. Losing that is like losing an immune system, leaving a democracy vulnerable to all manner of attack. And a democracy, like a body, cannot stay strong through repeated injuries.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias. More generally, the right spent a lot of time and money building an alternative reality. Think of a partisan petri dish where science is denied, lies masquerade as truth, and paranoia flourishes.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Every period of racial progress in this country is followed by a period of retrenchment. That’s what the election was about. It’s like in physics—every action has an equal and opposite reaction.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Be patient, be strong, keep going, and let the grace come when it can.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“If your neighbor’s house is on fire, it’s your problem too.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Revolts tend to start not in places where conditions are worst, but in places where expectations are most unmet.”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Like a trail through a forest which becomes more and more faint and finally seems to diminish to a nothing, traditional psychologiical theory too soon runs out for the creative, the gifted, the deep woman. Traditional psychology is often spare or entirely silent about the deeper issues important to woman: the archetypal, the intuitive, the sexual and cyclical, the ages of women, a woman's way, a woman's knowing, her creative fire...”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“A woman's issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No, that is what has already caused millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become outsiders in their own cultures.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving. Yet, separation from the wildest nature causes a woman's personality to become meager, think, ghostly, spectral. We are not meant to be puny with frail hair and inability to leap up, inability to chase, to birth, to create a life.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves