The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post Quotes

“channel the power of the mind. If you want to change your circumstances, then you have to change your attitude.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“My wealth would have been a burden on my soul if I did not find ways to share it with others.” That”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“I would never again make myself small in order to allow a man to feel big. I would never again root my home in another’s name, or put my own name aside to take up a man’s.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“Those of us who believe in freedom, who believe in opportunity, who believe in the innate goodness of the human race, we will not allow the conditions that would crush our rights, that would bring an end to self-respect and liberty for all, and especially for women.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“again make myself small in order to allow a man to feel big. I would never again root my home in another’s name, or put my own name aside to take up a man’s. I had been a leader, mother, businesswoman, and philanthropist all along. There was going to be no more denying that.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“In those busy but meaningful days, I began to understand, truly, the fierce and formidable power of women. Though we could not enlist and take up arms, I felt that I, and the many women around me, could have a direct hand in supporting this war abroad and keeping this country free at home. Though I could not vote for the president, though I could not even sit on the board of the company that bore my family’s name, I began to hope that, by the time my girls were older, these facts might change.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“Friendship outstays the hurrying flight of years and aye abides through laughter and through tears.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“And yet their hearts still needed me. I was, and would always be, their mother, and they would turn to me as they navigated their own respective swells of joy and pain.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“That was what I had done: Marjorie Merriweather Post was a mother who wanted to make the world better for her children. A wife who championed the cause of women. I hoped my words would matter.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“eyes followed me from the table, remaining fixed on my”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“, I thought back to that frigid winter evening when we’d first stepped off the train in Battle”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“My dear Mrs. Post, had you not been able to move the glass doors to get the view you wanted, you would have just relocated the Monument itself, isn’t that right?”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“what we Americans stood for—democracy, capitalism, faith”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“Words spoken by Tsarina Alexandra, the last empress of Russia,”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“read aloud the inscription: Friendship Outstays the Hurrying Flight of Years and Aye Abides Through Laughter and Through Tears.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“Though I could not vote for the president, though I could not even sit on the board of the company that bore my family’s name, I began to hope that, by the time my girls were older, these facts might change.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“With Papa, there were only good days and great days. On bad days, he wanted to know how I aimed to turn things around to finish out with some good.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“I may live like an empress, but I’ve never asked an emperor to pick up the bill.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“American Empress: The Life and Times”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“ordered”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“back to”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“the”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“Science and Health.”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

“Arbremont—Wooded Mountain in French”
― Allison Pataki, The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post