Margaret Loonam quote: "The day that we handed out numerical rank was one of the worst days in my professional life. They were sobbing. Only one person is happy when you hand out rank: the person who is No. 1."

Canada was built on dead beavers.
MARGARET ATWOOD

To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this...
MARGARET THATCHER

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
MARGARET MEAD

Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ...
MARGARET MEAD

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
MARGARET THATCHER

If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of pers...
MARGARET ATWOOD

And though I might have learnt more wit and advanced my understanding by living in a Court, yet bein...
MARGARET CAVENDISH

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which the...
MARGARET THATCHER

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have ...
MARGARET CHAN

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroa...
MARGARET THATCHER

I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.'...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
MARGARET MEAD

A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its lea...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

At least in part, people are attracted to subjects where they can identify at a basic level with the...
MARGARET GELLER

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
MARGARET MEAD

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada,...
MARGARET ATWOOD

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when the...
MARGARET CHO

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. The...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who e...
MARGARET MEAD

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother...
MARGARET SANGER

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as...
MARGARET THATCHER

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
MARGARET MEAD

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD

We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
MARGARET SPELLINGS

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve...
MARGARET SPELLINGS

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
MARGARET THATCHER

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not alway...
MARGARET THATCHER

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary.
MARGARET MEAD

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil a...
MARGARET MEAD

Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
MARGARET MEAD

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
MARGARET ATWOOD

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
MARGARET ATWOOD

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.
MARGARET DRABBLE

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...
MARGARET THATCHER

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
MARGARET THATCHER

Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite...
MARGARET MEAD

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With n...
MARGARET MEAD

Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read, it merely records the degree of ...
MARGARET MEAD

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?
MARGARET GATTY

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
MARGARET OLIPHANT

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for lo...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.
MARGARET DELAND

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
MARGARET MITCHELL

The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, ca...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world ...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people ...
MARGARET MEAD

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of fals...
MARGARET FULLER

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself,...
MARGARET MEAD

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservati...
MARGARET THATCHER

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you
MARGARET ATWOOD

I wish to Heaven I was married," she said resentfully as she attacked the yams with loathing. "I'm t...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way...
MARGARET CHO

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire li...
MARGARET CHO

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
MARGARET CHO

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look...
MARGARET CHO

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
MARGARET SACKVILLE

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing ove...
MARGARET ATWOOD

The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared,...
MARGARET MEAD

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
MARGARET MEAD

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
MARGARET OLIPHANT

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
MARGARET PETERS

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosoph...
MARGARET THATCHER

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as...
MARGARET MAHY

وقتی دردپایان می یابد،دیگر در یاد چه کسی می ماند؟ تنها �...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
MARGARET MEAD

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's ...
MARGARET MEAD

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
MARGARET MEAD

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.
MARGARET MEAD

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher.
MARGARET THATCHER

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied t...
MARGARET THATCHER

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER

The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg.
MARGARET THATCHER

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affa...
MARGARET THATCHER

This lady is not for turning.
MARGARET THATCHER

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.
MARGARET THATCHER

Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you c...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
MARGARET THATCHER

Pennies do not come from heaven -- they have to be earned here on earth.
MARGARET THATCHER

My dear, I don't give a damn.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being hel...
MARGARET MITCHELL

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is...
MARGARET ATWOOD

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every ...
MARGARET RUTHERFORD

On his own okay, Bush has authorized eavesdropping on as many as a thousand people over the past thr...
MARGARET CARLSON

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is to...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

He loved politicians - even Republicans.
MARGARET TRUMAN

The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?.
MARGARET GATTY

I am shocked that this is happening in the U.S.
MARGARET ARNOLD

. . . the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, secon...
MARGARET ANDERSON

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too
MARGARET ANDERSON

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
MARGARET ANDERSON

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur...
MARGARET ANDERSON

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.
MARGARET MAHY

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.
MARGARET STOHL

All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.
MARGARET STOHL

Claim yourself.
MARGARET STOHL

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the...
MARGARET CHO

We understand more than we know.
MARGARET ATWOOD

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling ti...
MARGARET ATWOOD

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
MARGARET THATCHER

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No"
MARGARET SMITH

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says wi...
MARGARET MARON

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
MARGARET MITCHELL

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the wh...
MARGARET SANGER

When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
MARGARET LAURENCE

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
MARGARET FULLER

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money too
MARGARET THATCHER

Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is ...
MARGARET MEAD

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had
MARGARET MEAD

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective,...
MARGARET MEAD

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w...
MARGARET MITCHELL

The little things are most worthwhile- quiet word, a look, a smile.
MARGARET LINDSEY

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one
MARGARET ATWOOD

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are hum...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Natural childbirth has evolved to suit the species, and if mankind chooses to ignore her advice and ...
MARGARET JOWITT

I still think anyone could look at it and raise question about its constitutionality. It comes back ...
MARGARET PLANE

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis
MARGARET BONNANO

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
MARGARET HALSEY

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
MARGARET HALSEY

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they...
MARGARET HALSEY

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
MARGARET TRUMAN

It's a funny old world.
MARGARET THATCHER

a wonderful Queen and an extraordinary person.
MARGARET THATCHER

I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy.
MARGARET THATCHER

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution wa...
MARGARET THATCHER

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modes...
MARGARET THATCHER

Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I woul...
MARGARET WHITING

You should have seen this coming,’ they said. I did see it coming. I saw it coming the way you see...
MARGARET ANDREWS

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of t...
MARGARET FULLER

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
MARGARET FULLER

I guess I felt compelled to express the loss I was feeling and the fact that I was praying for her. ...
MARGARET FULLER

Organized charity itself is the symptom of a malignant social disease. Those vast, complex, interrel...
MARGARET SANGER

What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
MARGARET DELAND

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
MARGARET ATWOOD

It's like being in a dark tunnel, walking over treacle.
MARGARET LEIGHTON

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.
MARGARET CAVENDISH

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.
MARGARET RUTHERFORD

As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but ri...
MARGARET CAVENDISH

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be wom...
MARGARET MEAD

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever h...
MARGARET MEAD

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't ...
MARGARET CHO

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it'...
MARGARET KEANE

When the program was suspended last year we were devastated.
MARGARET DUFFY

She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.
MARGARET MITCHELL

That's not it. After the first attack, they start analyzing it and say, 'I'm not going to do that ag...
MARGARET SUMMY

We are proud to have him as our leader for the past 17 years and are honored to continue to have his...
MARGARET MILLER

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and ...
MARGARET MAHY

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what ...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.
MARGARET ATWOOD

I suppose, I'll now be known as Charley's Aunt.
PRINCESS MARGARET

After all, tomorrow is another day!
MARGARET MITCHELL

No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the...
MARGARET ATWOOD

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
MARGARET MEAD

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
MARGARET ATWOOD

Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. G...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.
MARGARET CHO

Traditionally, natives did not put wings on their totem poles, but many people want wings on them.
MARGARET BENSON

A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you

is that a ...
MARGARET ATWOOD

And the way you lost your temper!" went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful...
MARGARET WIDDEMER

Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth'...
MARGARET GEORGE

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for tha...
MARGARET ATWOOD

The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more...
MARGARET ATWOOD

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine...
MARGARET WERTHEIM

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the thin...
MARGARET THATCHER

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in or...
MARGARET YOUNG

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as po...
MARGARET ATWOOD

We're continuing where we left off last week. We've had three negotiating sessions within the last t...
MARGARET DININNO

people with ME/CFS do not have “fatigue as their main symptom”; they have post-extertional fatig...
MARGARET WILLIAMS

The little things are most worthwhile-
A quite word, a look, a smile,
A listening ear that...
MARGARET LINDSEY

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.
MARGARET MILLAR

He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.
MARGARET MITCHELL

Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you...
MARGARET MAHY

This means we remain at an impasse. The district does believe final best-offer would bring some clos...
MARGARET DININNO

Ant Prune was holding one of the squirrels in her hand. ‘And once a day, we have ta clean their li...
MARGARET STOHL

It's a funny old world.
MARGARET THATCHER

Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the cleares...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that w...
MARGARET MITCHELL

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of peop...
MARGARET HEFFERNAN

The day that we handed out numerical rank was one of the worst days in my professional life. They were sobbing. Only one person is happy when you hand out rank: the person who is No. 1.

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The day that we handed out numerical rank was one of the worst days in my professional life. They were sobbing. Only one person is happy when you hand out rank: the person who is No. 1.

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