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I probably read Harriet the Spy about 70,000 times. -- Alison Bechdel
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. -- Nancy Gibbs
Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that. -- Liza Minnelli
Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers. -- Ellen Goodman
We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. -- Stokely Carmichael
Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1913, you get this extraordinary spectrum of the African-American experience. -- Douglas Brinkley
Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman. -- Patricia Hewitt
I honestly don't think Peter is that interesting without Harriet - the only exception being 'The Nine Tailors', which is such a good book it doesn't really matter whether he's got a consort or not. -- Jill Paton Walsh
My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr. -- Horton Foote
L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A. -- Yara Shahidi
On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane. -- Mary Stuart Masterson
Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest. -- Langston Hughes
Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning -- Robert Hayden
Love is blind," Harriet quipped. "But not illiterate," Elizabeth retorted. -- Julia Quinn
Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars. -- Sanford Biggers
I didn't grow up in a mom-and-pop, Ozzie and Harriet type of environment, but who did. -- Lucinda Williams
Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn. -- Louise Fitzhugh
Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. -- Alice Walker
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Harriet Miers isn't qualified to play a Supreme Court justice on The West Wing , let alone to be a real one. -- Ann Coulter
I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally. -- Janelle Monae
Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night! -- A. P. Herbert
Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator. -- Erica Jong
Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! -- Charles Dickens
When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy -- Louise Fitzhugh
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book. -- Eva Ibbotson
Everybody that loves freedom loves Harriet Tubman because she was determined not only to be free, but to make free as many people as she could. -- Nikki Giovanni
[Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it. -- Louise Fitzhugh
I really wasn't too interested in writing "Father Knows Best" and "Ozzie And Harriet." I thought they were pleasant enough, but it wasn't really what I wanted to do. -- Garry Marshall
I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. -- Jane Austen
Harriet Miers is totally qualified for the Supreme Court of the United States. Her legal background, her absolute leadership in the legal field when she was a practicing lawyer are unqualified. -- Kay Bailey Hutchison
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web. -- Peter Morville
Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up. -- Marian Wright Edelman
I once dated a guy who was like, 'Holy sh--, I just made out with Harriet the Spy!' And that's messed up. Don't say that. I was 10, you're 30, it's just weird. -- Michelle Trachtenberg
The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series. -- Aldis Hodge
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Slavery was a web of relationships, and if people knew how thick the whole business was, they would not make fun of people like Harriet Tubman. They would understand how intelligent she was and how sharp. -- James McBride
If Harriet Miers were not a crony of the president of the United States, her nomination to the Supreme Court would be a joke, as it would have occurred to no one else to nominate her. -- Charles Krauthammer
Harriet Beecher Stowe thought Uncle Tom's Cabin was written through her by Another Hand, so little did she know what was going to happen from moment to moment in the book. She herself was amazed at what she was writing. -- Sophy Burnham
Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a "Super Soul Sunday" every day. Learning about her and the layers of her helps you to see that the same woman who holds a gun and an axe felt feelings for a man. -- Aisha Hinds
I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit. -- Oprah Winfrey
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My husband would do anything for me ...' It's degrading. No human being ought to have such power over another.""It's a very real power, Harriet.""Then ... we won't use it. If we disagree, we'll fight it out like gentlemen. We won't stand for matrimonial blackmail. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers's religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle. -- Peter Baker
Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet -- Harriet Lerner
Quoting Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) US civil rights leader We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy. -- Harriet Tubman
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls. -- Kathryn Lasky
I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. -- Lauren Tarshis

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