Maxine Kumin Quotes

“That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.”

“Nature is a catchment of sorrows.”

“What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?”

“Harriet loved her new persona. As Maxine, she was courageous and accomplished, a woman of sophistication equally at home in Cannes or on the Indian subcontinent. As Maxine she didn't walk, she strode; she did not merely see, but beheld. The very air she breathed was bracing. Here was a conqueror of worlds.”

“I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.”

“This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.”

“Having an achievement mindset is your competitive advantage”

“If you stay ready, there's no need to get ready when an opportunity presents itself.”

“To me success means effectiveness in the world that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world-that I am able to change it in positive ways.”

“Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.”