Quote by Rick Perlstein Download Open image ““insistent opening bark of the UPI’s Helen Thomas:”” — Rick Perlstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“I reached for Helen's hand, and felt her squeeze back, accepting that I would understand more than most the missing part of the human… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“Thomas had a younger sister, Ester, who was a facsimile of the womanizer brother, who had behaviors that mirrored her brother’s treatment of women,… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“She appeared to adore Thomas's repugnance to her and to draw it out of him every chance she got as if it added delectably… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“As her husband held her close, she could feel the pulse of other choices, other lives, opening up beneath her. Her past crackled behind… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“I am not a terribly physical person. Helen wasn't either. We'd never hugged or even shaken hands, so it was odd to find myself… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“When she closed her eyes, he let his gaze travel over her. She lay on her side and he marveled at the perfect slopes… — Amber Lynn Perry Copy Share Image
“A male—even such a male as Tibby—was enough to stop the foolery. The barrier of sex, though decreasing among the civilised, is still high,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“My need of your words: for such closeness there should be a word beyond love." Helen, to Leith, in "The Great Fire” — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
“Hélène, her eyes once more raised and remote, was deep in a dream. She was Lady Rowena, she was in love, with the deep… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“In Rome, a woman’s power, however circumspectly exercised, arouses revulsion. Every death in my family circle has been laid at my door.” — Phyllis T. Smith Copy Share Image
“Helen ran down a flight of stairs at the back of the house and into the garden. In the darkness she stopped and stood… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I love trade magazines - any trade's magazine: by entering into what is taken for granted in a world not your own, you better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding inquiries about… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Watergate got us to think of leaders as mere mortals. America began to think of itself in a very different way - I would… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Part of the fantasy certain pro-reform Republicans like to broadcast about Hispanics, family-oriented, churchgoing traditionalists, is that they are somehow natural conservatives, just waiting… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The only times during my religious instruction I remember hearing God's name invoked with any sincere conviction at all was in the oft-repeated and… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think that all politicians who aspire to the presidency are a little nuts, but for different reasons. What kind of person aspires to… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Chicago's privatization mania began during Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration, which ran from 1989 to 2011. Under his successor, Rahm Emanuel, the trend has… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
