Rebecca Traister Quotes

Up until 1920, women couldn't vote. Until 1974, married women couldn't get their own credit cards or, in some cases, their own loans. Basically, the husband's professional, social, and economic identity covered the individual identity of the wife.

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• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Children
  • Law
  • City

• My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Football
  • Never
  • Husband

• I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Professional

• It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Me
  • Economic
  • Program

• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Economic
  • Policy
  • Republicans

• When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Job
  • Best
  • Professional

• I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Powerful
  • Husband

• I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Mother
  • Husband
  • Bloom

• You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • People
  • Important
  • Ideas

• My husband is a former rocker and in charge of our humungous music collection, and I've recently been asking him for classical music.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Music
  • Husband
  • Him

• You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Career
  • Teacher
  • Thought

• The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Children
  • Career

• Local markets for literary fiction remain underdeveloped; the metropolis often holds out the only real possibility of a professional writing career.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Career

• At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever's in the fridge. It's sort of a game.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Game
  • Husband
  • End

• I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Way
  • Economic
  • Own

• My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Mother
  • Hope

• A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • High
  • Professional

• There are writers out there who say they're writing a second series, and then you pick it up and it feels exactly the same, only the lead character is blonde instead of brunette.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Up

• I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Follower
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Passion
  • Justice

• Up until 1920, women couldn't vote. Until 1974, married women couldn't get their own credit cards or, in some cases, their own loans. Basically, the husband's professional, social, and economic identity covered the individual identity of the wife.

  

  Rebecca Traister
  • Husband
  • Professional
  • Economic