Dorothy Fields Quotes
The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
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If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist.
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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.
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One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.
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My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.
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Conservatives sometimes forget that limiting government is not an end in itself but a means to a better society.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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I am like a friend to my kids. My wife, Sangeeta, handles their studies, etc.
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If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.
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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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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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My heart grows every day through struggling and love of my kids. It helps balance everything else - the work and the world. It helps keep me grounded and in perspective of what is really meaningful to me.
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You can’t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first.
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Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.
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The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.
