Mallory Ortberg Quotes
I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.

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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.
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I remember being taught my place.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
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I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
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I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.