Emily Oster Quotes
I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.
Quotes to Explore
-
My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
-
I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
-
When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
-
I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
-
It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
-
The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
-
My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
-
If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
-
I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.
-
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
-
I hate wasting people's time.
-
I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.
-
I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
-
For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
-
I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!
-
Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
-
My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
-
I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.
-
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
-
We don't need any more reality TV, women yelling at each other. I can't watch that stuff.
-
If you want to cry, you're not going to like my books.
-
Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation.
-
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.
-
I think women - relative to men - tend to feel that they have to do the household chores on top of everything else. This becomes even worse once you have kids. It's enough to have a full time job; a full time job plus a family is even more.
