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.
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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.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.
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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.'
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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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.
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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.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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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.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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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!
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.
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The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.
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The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.
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Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.
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If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.
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What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.
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Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.
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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.
