A Quote by Isabel Allende

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Chilean - Writer
Born: August 2, 1942

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

Sherilyn Fenn

As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.

Sylvia Plath

In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

Maajid Nawaz

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

Bella Abzug

No one can step twice into the same river, nor touch mortal substance twice in the same condition. By the speed of its change, it scatters and gathers again.

Heraclitus

Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

Allegra Goodman

He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.

Stefan Zweig

I hope we don't have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

Erica Jong

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

Brion Gysin

Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebody says, 'I think we'll take this stone out of here and put it over there. And while we're at it, let's make this stone red and that stone green.'

Leigh Brackett

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

Stephen Malkmus

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

Rudyard Kipling

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

Tom Hayden

I am nice, yeah. I'm cool. But I'm no push-over. And if someone gets one over on me, they've done it when my eyes were closed, and it doesn't happen twice.

Anthony Joshua

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