Noel Marie Fletcher > Quotes

“I've often thought about how all these different life forms occupy the same space as me during a given moment and how easy it can be to get so wrapped up in your own world you forget you're part of something larger and marvelous.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Windows into the Beauty of Flowers & Nature

“No lack of time, strength or money shall prevent me from doing anything that I want to do,” was Sarah Macnaughtan’s lifelong motto, first uttered in her younger years. A compassionate and daring woman ahead of her time who stood barely over 5 feet tall, Sarah let no obstacles become roadblocks in her life.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, The Strange Side of War: A Woman’s WWI Diary

“What you will see are things that caught my eye and made me stop in my tracks to take a closer look.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Windows into the Beauty of Flowers & Nature

“Her unique observations are about how the war
impacted people—from the thrill-seekers going to battlefields for fun, to the nurses working among the wounded in darkness, and London society women venturing into foreign lands to work near dangerous enemy lines.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, The Strange Side of War: A Woman's WWI Diary

“Each of the three cultures in New Mexico during the mid-1800s (Caucasian, Hispanic, and Native American) were actively involved in kidnapping each other. As competition and fighting occurred between the three races, cruelty and violence were rampant on all sides. Yet, some captives found kindness among their captors.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest

“You, too, can observe the beauty of flowers and nature through the windows of your life if you are willing to open them.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Windows into the Beauty of Flowers & Nature

“I suppose you could say these images present a glimpse of the world around me during the last 5 years as well as moments in time for the creatures and nature sharing the same space as me.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Pathways in Time: Photo Journeys

“It was difficult to go to one of my favorite Asian restaurants alongside the southern section of the square. All around the front door, the exterior of the building looked like it’d had a bad case of acne due to pitting—but the small round holes were from bullets.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“A common thread that weaves the stories of all the captives together is race—one racial group attacking another. Many innocent people were simply trying to live their ordinary lives when another group decided it was justifiable to use violence to rob, beat, murder, kidnap, sometimes mutilate, and enslave others and their loved ones.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest

“What sets my photos in this book apart from other similar works is that all these images were taken during my daily life. No big glitzy photo shoots. No big camera. No heavy bag with lots of lenses. No tripod...I photographed things I thought were beautiful, funny, ironic, spectacular, sad, interesting...”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Pathways in Time: Photo Journeys

“While browsing through the Seattle Art Museum in 1945, a scholar discovered a 5-inch jade seal, missing from China since the Boxer Rebellion, as a priceless Imperial seal. “My spectacles fell off my nose and I started to yell,” said Hugh Alexander Matier, 62-year-old scholar and traveler.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Two Years in the Forbidden City

“Armed with her title as princess, the married name of Mrs. Thaddeus White, and the United States as a new frontier to conquer, Der Ling won many admirers.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Two Years in the Forbidden City

“He found all of this very cool, jumping right in to join me as we got down to the serious business of Chinese cuisine.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“It was breathtaking. It felt like being inside the beating heart of that pulsating, exotic nation.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher

“In this eyewitness story, we meet Tzu-hsi in the twilight of her reign. Advanced in age, the Empress on the Dragon Throne is no longer the young beauty whose skill at seduction and aptitude for court intrigue saw her rise from a lowly Imperial concubine to the second most powerful place under the Hsien-feng Emperor.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Two Years in the Forbidden City

“Later I attended many press events at the Great Hall of the People. Each time I saw it, I was impressed.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“How does what we see cloaked as “news” by “journalists” jive with his mandate that a journalist should strive to be objective, not blur facts with opinions, and maintain the impartial integrity of the noble profession of journalism?”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“Carleton took issue with Steck’s advocacy on behalf of Natives and embarked on a campaign with military leaders on Capitol Hill that eventually forced Steck out of his job.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest

“More often than not, though, no further mention was made about the fate of the prisoners. I wondered to myself what happened to these people? After months of digging, I learned the ugly truth, which is also addressed in this book.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest

“She worked there for several months as a slave in a Mexican family until they sold her to a wealthy Hispanic man from Santa Fe, N.M. He also purchased another young captive Apache woman from New Mexico to accompany them. Both women were loaded onto an oxcart bound for Santa Fe in a journey that could take at least three months.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest

“Much older than myself, Martin was a distinguished and handsome career journalist who worked at the same newspaper I did.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“My first trip to the mainland came after I had been traveling extensively in Asia on reporting assignments for The Journal of Commerce newspaper, located at that time on Wall Street in New York City.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“They were so shocked to see me (a woman) driving that I never had any trouble getting okayed to proceed past checkpoints.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“He told me about being in school in Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s where he played a Hawaiian guitar, wore a lei with his friends and sang in nightclubs.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“I noticed a couple of dark things flying in a zigzagging pattern near the lights. I wondered what kind of night-flying strange birds they could be. Upon closer inspection, I realized they were bats.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“Martin was very pro-American in his attitude and statements. When I knew him, he was divorced, alone and a Korean who had never lived in Korea—neither in what became North or South Korea. A man without a country.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“This book is important due to the historical insights of Der Ling rather than her literary skill. Her life and works underscore a shrewd ability to adapt and make the most out of her various experiences.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Two Years in the Forbidden City

“There weren’t many foreign women living in Beijing at that time—much less zipping through traffic like I did wearing my sunglasses—with my window rolled down, radio blaring and a cigarette dangling from my fingertips.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“Not agreeing with something that happened in history or with another person’s traditions doesn’t provide license to eradicate or vilify entire aspects of the past.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, My Time in Another World: Experiences as a Foreign Correspondent in China

“Despite it all, there were heroes who rose above their circumstances. Those who reached out to people of another race with compassion and even love.”
― Noel Marie Fletcher, Captives of the Southwest