Margaret Halsey > Quotes

“The people who say you are not facing reality
actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality.
Reality is above all else a variable.
With a firm enough commitment,
you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.”
― Margaret Halsey

“In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.”
― Margaret Halsey

“Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to see mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.”
― Margaret Halsey

“The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality”
― Margaret Halsey

“The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.”
― Margaret Halsey

“And when people shrink from competition and arrange matters so that they never have to compete, there is only one possible interpretation: those people are afraid they cannot win.”
― Margaret Halsey, Color Blind: A White Woman Looks at the Negro