Sarah Vowell Quotes

When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.

Sarah Vowell

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• America
• Wife
• Boys

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• When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Wife