Rebecca Traister Quotes
Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?
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The fans treated me royally.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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I'm always criticised by other Somalis and Muslims for what I'm doing as a model and married to a white man and all that.
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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
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I want to bring more manufacturing jobs to America. For starters, I want to be behind the initative to build a manufacturing facility in Atlanta.
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There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.
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I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you'd like to have.
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Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus.
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It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.
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I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
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There is evidence Rand Paul has a real problem with women reporters.
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There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines.
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On yoga Once you've completed a wonderful class, you get a sense of the deepest, purest part of yourself. You feel like you are connected to everybody else in the world.
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You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.
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Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
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New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
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Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.
