Colleen McCullough Quotes

If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

I am not an egghead in the least.

I'm an educated individual.

Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.

I knew I had to be the gay stereotype that was on the front of the papers every day. And I did my job well. I played the game.

I'm a pretty bookish person.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea.

I particularly loved the adjective bookish, which I found other people used about as often as ramrod or chum or teetotaler.

My whole family thinks I'm gay, I guess it's always been that way. Maybe it's 'cause of the way that I walk, Makes them think I like... boys.

Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.

And Supernatural, in fact, going there wasit felt like a place where I had to actually, um, learn to be kind of manly. I felt like I had to kind of change my, like, way of speaking for a little bit, just to kind of fit in, oddly enough. Which was weird.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

I've once gotten in trouble with certain gay activists because I'm not gay enough! I am a morose homosexual. I'm melancholy. Gay is the last adjective I would use to describe myself. The idea of being gay, like a little sparkler, never occurs to me. So if you ask me if I'm gay, I say no.

He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.