Maureen Dowd Quotes

To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

A battle is developing between them' I say developing, because it's not yet on.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works.

He will antagonize you. To that extent he is steady.

This is a hard job to do …. We represent the underdog, and that makes the top dogs angry.

We have rivals, implacable rivals who constantly oppose the influence which we already exert. They strive to frustrate us in every way possible.

There is no little enemy.

I look at the Supreme Court and know why Jesus wept.

Everyone wants to fight me. It's a long list.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

Of course defenders will try to provoke me - that is their job.

You have some defenders who don't like you and you don't like them. And you know from the first minute, they're going to do everything to take you out of the game.

Injustice drives me crazy!

I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?

I just want to fight. That's all I want.

Two guys who don't like each other is a great fight.

Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

I am not anyone's enemy.

I mean, you know, we don't live in a perfect world.

Four personalities are bound to clash.