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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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
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I guess with any type of music or any art, there's always an evolution.
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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
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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.
