Jen Kirkman Quotes
We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'
Quotes to Explore
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem.
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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I'm not on Twitter or Facebook. I've never been interested in being on any of them. I don't know why I'm not. I just don't have that need. I feel like I'm one of the only people I know who doesn't do it.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.
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Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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What I really would like to see is more female stories out there. Particularly older female stories, because women are predominantly ticket-buyers.
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While the women just want to have consequence-free sex anti-contraceptive argument is often trotted out by latter-day social conservatives, such a view is a cruel and misogynist oversimplification. A more realistic assessment of the struggle for effective contraception would be to see it as the struggle to achieve some level of control over the single most dangerous, resource-intensive, and biologically crucial activity in which human beings regularly engage.
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We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'
