Mary Beth Whitehead Quotes
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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I never, by any regard, ever denied any part of my family roots.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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Sometimes stereotyping happens not because of any nefarious reasons but rather because people don't know who you are or where you come from, so they go for the broad strokes about you, your culture, your faith, all that.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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It's a question of not so much pushing the boys out of the picture, but making the whole frame bigger so that both men and women access the labor market, contribute to the economy, generate growth, have jobs, and so on.
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I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.
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I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
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Women just weren't made to bear children to give them away.
