Jeff Lindsay Quotes
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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It is axiomatic that the security of America and Europe are linked.
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.
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Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
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My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
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I am an independent girl. I always put my work first in my priority.
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Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long.
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Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
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Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.
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There's something really personal about your voice, where if people talk shit on your guitar, 'Ugh, he played out of tune,' etc., you can, in your head, blame it on something else, but when you fuck up with your singing, that's part of you ... So I guess I'm an insecure enough dude that I just went back and really studied and tried to sing better.
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When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
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I don't think that we are completely dominated by what we have inherited from the past, but it is the case that as far back as you can go - just to Homer, but also to the literature of Rome, the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance - what you will find is that women's voices are not taken seriously.
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It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism.
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The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you.
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I think a lot of black filmmakers have done very well.
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Sociopaths don't have feelings; they can't.
