Ina May Gaskin Quotes
Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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Trump is a master obfuscator. Like an octopus escaping a predator, he releases a cloud of ink when called to the carpet on one of his many lies. His strategy? Obfuscate, then reference others. 'Millions agree,' 'everyone knows,' 'many have done it.'
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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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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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Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
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I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.
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Why do we, then, continue to treat women as if their emotions and comfort, and the postures they might want to assume while in labor, are against the rules?
