Barbara Bergmann Quotes
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
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I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.
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There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
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Millions of mind guerrillas, raising the spirit of peace and love, not war.
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I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.
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Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
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The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.
