Betty Friedan Quotes
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.Betty Friedan
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Jack White The White Stripes -
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
Gavin Newsom -
Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
Gary Wolf -
I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
Candice Olson
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
Carice van Houten -
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
Saint Augustine -
I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
J. D. Salinger -
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
J. D. Vance -
It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
Malala Yousafzai -
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
Carl Sandburg
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
Vernon L. Smith -
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Abbie Hoffman -
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
Rachel Platten -
Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
Maggie Grace -
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde -
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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You have to learn certain skills to present magic.
David Copperfield -
There's nothing glamorous about being dead.
Loni Anderson -
Of all the things we have done, the most important - the one that history will record as the principal contribution of our generation - is that we understand how to turn the armed struggle into a Revolution; that we realized that it was essential to create a new mentality to build a new society.
Samora Machel -
But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
M. Scott Peck -
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
Zara Phillips -
It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.
Betty Friedan