Gloria Quotes

“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us”

“Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back.”

“The secret to a happy life is your attitude. If you think positively, positive things will happen. If you think negatively... well where is the happiness?”

“The secret to a happy life is simply your attitude.”

“Life is totally unbelievable. Enjoy it at its fullest, with no regrets.”

“Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.”

“Believe me, if Archimedes ever had the grand entrance of a girl as pretty as Gloria to look forward to, he would never have spent so much time calculating the value of Pi. He would have been baking her a Pie! If Euclid had ever beheld a vision of loveliness like the one I see walking into my anti-math class, he would have forgotten all the geometry of lines and planes, and concentrated on the sweet simplicity of soft curves. If Pythagoras had ever had a girl look at him the way Gloria's eyes fix in my direction, he would have given up his calculations on the hypotenuse of right triangles and run for the hills to pick a bouquet of wildflowers.”

“Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!”

“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.”