Quotable Me

The following quotes are my own creations. They are constantly updating as life marches on. These quotes are not from some larger piece. They are stand alone writings. Sometimes a person just has a short something to say to the world. (Hey, isn't that a new quote?)

After spending an evening with a former boyfriend I realized: "I find it amusing that men who have been involved with me are completely astonished when they find I have a talent for something. I explain to them that they would have noticed said talent had they not been so enamoured of themselves."

When asked why I divorced, I sat thinking about the real reasons. After a moment I came up with: "I used to think I left my husband because of his deceit and infidelity, but now I realize that it was entirely my distaste for being told what to do."

Someone asked me why I was so cynical about relationships, I answered: "Don't mistake bitter cynicsm for abject terror."

One day I thought about why I am the way I am and why my life is as it is: "I've always been about the journey. When I get to where I'm going, I check on everyone's health and happiness. I find out who is dying, who has died and who should die. Then I'm ready to go home by a different route. I don't believe in hanging around. I treat just about every aspect of my life that way. It doesn't matter if it is traveling, education, career, or even love, I am just not interested in the destination."

After encountering the indifference to the war in Iraq I came to this conclusion: "The problem with this country is that we haven't had a war on our soil since 1865. Unless you're Native American, and then you can move that forward a couple more decades. But the result is the same. We don't know what war is. We haven't had to suffer. Maybe it would be good for us if we did."

A hard won lesson that has resurfaced again and again: "Something I learned in the Army, and have had proven to me over and over since, is that a man can screw up and, after a little razzing from his friends, be forgiven just about anything. If a woman screws up, she's forgiven nothing. Ever."

This explains my bank account: "I will never be rich. I just don't have a good sense of greed."

"Churches, temples, etc. are vehicles in which a man who cannot gain a country to govern, governs men through their lack of self confidence and fear of death, and that governance frequently dives into corruption and sadism because there is no one who can call them to account since their authority is from a source conspicuously and conveniently absent."