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My mother was a great advocate of women's rights, a member of the League of Women's Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a woman's rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.
- Kathryn Lasky
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#Mother
#Rights
#Woman
#Women
I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Cotton
#Diet
#Hate
#Me
#Sweet
I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Birth
#History
#Imagination
#People
I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be!
- Kathryn Lasky
#Been
#Loved
#Professional
#Read
#Wanted
I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Abstract
#Never
#She
#Thinking
#Way
Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Cotton
#Diet
#Hate
#Live
#Never
I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Love
#Play
#Stars
#Thinking
#Who
I came from a home where everybody had a book.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Book
#Everybody
#Had
#Home
#Where
Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Know
#Loved
#Need
#Princess
#Whether
I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Believe
#Best
#I Believe
#Preparation
Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Literature
#Mathematics
#Thinking
#Us
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
#Famous
#Grow
#Growing Up
#Historical
#Up
With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Days
#Inside
#Know
#Three
#Twice
To me, the most important thing is to tell a good story. If I can do that, I think that enlightenment, respect of nature, etc. follows.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Good
#Important
#Me
#Nature
#Respect
I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Always
#Daydreaming
#Distracted
#Feel
I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Challenges
#Character
#Diary
#Loneliness
Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.
- Kathryn Lasky
#Energy
#Incredible
#Looking
#People
#Way
I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.
- Kathryn Lasky
#American
#History
#Man
#Moon
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